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Uploaded by on Feb 28, 2011

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Artist:Ray Charles
Song : Lift Every Voice

James Weldon Johnson : Composer
Margaret Burroughs :Activist
Ernest Just:Marine Biologist
Athea Gibson :First Professional African American Tennis Player
Chuck Berry: Pioneer of Rock and Roll
Goodridge Brothers:Photographers
Geoffrey Holder:Actor choreographer, director, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer .
Elijah Muhammad:Religious Leader

Toni Morrison:Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor.

Four Little Girls: Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins, aged 11 to 14 were killed during a terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.


Emmett Till:an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson is known as the Father of Black History:an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

Eldridge Cleaver: member of the Black Panther Party,writer.

Nelson Mandela:South African president and anti-apartheid activist.

Paul Robeson:Actor,Activist,Athlete.

James Baldwin: Novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist.

Maulana Ron Karenga: Political Activist,Author.

Amiri Baraka:Writer,poet,essayist.

Oscar Brown Jr:Singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, and civil rights activist.

Leontyne Price: Soprano,the first African-American to become a leading "prima donna assoluta" at the Metropolitan Opera.

Marian Anderson:Contralto , one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century.

Hands United : The Million Man March held in Washington D.C. October 16, 1995.A group of activist,politicians,musicians,religious leaders,entertainers,came together in solidarity for people.

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  • The movement was established for Civil rights ,integration followed!

    Civil Rights:The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

    Integration: An act or instance of combining into an integral whole.

    2.

    An act or instance of integrating a racial, religious, or ethnic group.

    3.

    An act or instance of integrating an organization, place of business, school, etc.

  • @jubileeshine Thanks for the Love!Hope to type to ya soon!

  • @Fiercefist Thank you Dear friend!

  • Great Video! Love it..........

  • thanks

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