Coretta Scott King was the widow of Martin Luther King Jr….
Civil Rights
Stories and tributes to the lives touched by the civil rights movement.
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News Obituaries
Autherine Lucy Foster (1929–2022), first Black student at the University of Alabama
She was expelled after three days of protests against her enrollment.
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He was called ‘the most arrested rabbi in America” for his lifetime of activism.
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He was an effective and influential advocate for Native American rights.
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Her daughter, Denise McNair, was one of four girls killed in a church bombing.
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He won four PGA titles in his celebrated career.
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She started a one-woman Montgomery bus boycott six months before Rosa Parks’s historic st.
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He was known for his work in civil rights and tax reform.
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Moses worked to register Black voters in the South in the 1960s.
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Gloria Richardson was a civil rights activist known for her role in intense protests in early-1960s Cambridge, Maryland. Died:Â July 15, 2021 (Who else died on July 15?) Details of death:Â Died …