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    Charles Kenzie Steele (February 17, 1914, in McDowell County, West Virginia – (1980-08-19)August 19, 1980 in Tallahassee, Florida) was a preacher and...
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    Charles Steele Jr. (born August 3, 1946) is an American businessman, politician and civil rights leader. He was the first African American elected to the...
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  • Charles Kenzie Steele (1914–1980), American preacher and civil rights activist Charles R. Steele (1933–2021), American mechanical engineer Charles Steele...
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    Conference and appointed the following executive board: King, president; Charles Kenzie Steele, vice president; Abernathy, financial secretary-treasurer; T. J...
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    place, and speaking to the crowds. Reading the Sermon on the Mount: by Charles H. Talbert 2004 ISBN 1-57003-553-9 pp. 21–26. What are they saying about...
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    on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras." Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, "She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She...
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    Smith Mary Louise Smith Maxine Smith Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson Charles Kenzie Steele Hank Thomas Dorothy Tillman A. P. Tureaud Hartman Turnbow Albert...
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    Freedom Singers, Charles Evers, Fred Shuttlesworth, Cleveland Robinson, Randolph Blackwell, Annie Bell Robinson Devine, Charles Kenzie Steele, Alfred Daniel...
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    of her speaker fees. In February 1987, she co-founded, with Elaine Eason Steele, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, an institute...
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    from Mobile, Alabama, T. J. Jemison from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Charles Kenzie Steele from Tallahassee, Florida, A. L. Davis from New Orleans, Louisiana...
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  • Till-Bradley arrived to testify, and the trial also attracted black congressman Charles Diggs from Michigan. Bradley, Diggs, and several black reporters stayed...
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  • the support of the NAACP. During a conference in Orlando, Rev. Charles Kenzie Steele introduced Hayling to civil rights movement leader Martin Luther...
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    Henry Douglass, Frederick Douglass Jr., Charles Remond Douglass, and Annie Douglass (died at the age of ten). Charles and Rosetta helped produce his newspapers...
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    Smith Mary Louise Smith Maxine Smith Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson Charles Kenzie Steele Hank Thomas Dorothy Tillman A. P. Tureaud Hartman Turnbow Albert...
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    Smith Mary Louise Smith Maxine Smith Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson Charles Kenzie Steele Hank Thomas Dorothy Tillman A. P. Tureaud Hartman Turnbow Albert...
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    Smith Mary Louise Smith Maxine Smith Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson Charles Kenzie Steele Hank Thomas Dorothy Tillman A. P. Tureaud Hartman Turnbow Albert...
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    states: "There is no God but Allah, Master W. D. Fard, Elijah, his prophet" Charles Eric Lincoln, The Black Muslims in America, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing...
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    Schwerner Cleveland Sellers Charles Sherrod Fred Shuttlesworth Modjeska Monteith Simkins Nina Simone Charles Kenzie Steele Annie Stein Dempsey Travis C...
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    and the Howard University School of Law. At Howard, he was mentored by Charles Hamilton Houston, who taught his students to be "social engineers" willing...
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    African-American education Fables of Faubus, a song written by jazz bassist Charles Mingus Little Rock (poem) Nine from Little Rock, an Academy Award-winning...
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    Bishop". The New York Times. December 29, 1991. Retrieved July 25, 2017. Steele, John (June 25, 1956). "A Kingmaker or a Dark Horse". Life. pp. 111–124...
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    descent. Harry Jr. was raised Catholic and attended parochial school at St. Charles Borromeo. From 1932 to 1940, Belafonte lived with one of his grandmothers...
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    Smith Mary Louise Smith Maxine Smith Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson Charles Kenzie Steele Hank Thomas Dorothy Tillman A. P. Tureaud Hartman Turnbow Albert...
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    on January 5, 1915. Monson died later that year, and his brother-in-law Charles E Young Sr became manager of the new hotel. The Monson was enlarged in...
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    Tennessee (Richard Fulton and Ross Bass), Claude Pepper of Florida and Charles L. Weltner of Georgia voted in favor Southern Republicans: 0–11 (0–100%)...
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  • Notable among the Topeka NAACP leaders were the chairman McKinley Burnett; Charles Scott, one of three serving as legal counsel for the chapter; and Lucinda...
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    by members of the Ku Klux Klan including law enforcement. In 1963, when Charles McDew stepped down as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
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