• Massillon, Ohio in 1938, to Eva (née Stephens) and James McDew. He was one of five children. Mcdew's mother worked as a nurse and his father, who had been...
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  • McDew is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles McDew (1938–2018), American activist Darren W. McDew (born 1960), United States Air...
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    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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  • Knowles as Jim Zwerg Byron Herlong as James Zellner Onye Eme-Akwari as Charles McDew In February 2019, it was announced Barry Alexander Brown would direct...
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    and casket returned to Detroit, for two days, Parks lay in repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Her funeral service was seven...
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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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    John Lewis Robert Martinson Salynn McCollum Charles McDew Winonah Myers Diane Nash Wally Nelson James Peck Charles Person Robert Laughlin Pierson John...
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    Democratic primary: Ahmad Braxton-Jones, Howard Brown, Chanda McMahan, Sandra Seegars and Charles Wilson. No Republican or Statehood Green candidates filed...
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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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    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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    Other prominent student activists included Dion Diamond, Charles McDew, Bernard Lafayette, Charles Jones, Lonnie King, Julian Bond, Hosea Williams, and Stokely...
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    eds. Chicago: Third World Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-88378-351-1. 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index...
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    especially Highland Scotch whisky, the Mountain Dew name was trademarked for the soft drink in 1948. Charles Gordon, who had partnered with William Swartz...
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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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    out his dreams to the multitude." An article in The Boston Globe by Mary McGrory reported that King's speech "caught the mood" and "moved the crowd" of...
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    hundred who marched while they were on trial. In 1962 Zellner and Chuck McDew visited Dion Diamond, an imprisoned Freedom Rider in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
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  • a social reformer and friend of Du Bois; Oswald Garrison Villard, and Charles Edward Russell, a renowned muckraker and close friend of Walling. Russell...
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    James Charles Evers (September 11, 1922 – July 22, 2020) was an American civil rights activist, businessman, radio personality, and politician. Evers...
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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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    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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  • "Foggy Dew" is the name of several Irish ballads, and of an Irish lament. The most popular song of that name (written by Charles O'Neill) chronicles the...
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    Vanderbilt University, James Lawson; Charles F. McDew, who led student protests at South Carolina State University; J. Charles Jones, Johnson C. Smith University...
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    King 1964, p. 72. King 1964, p. 71. King 1964, pp. 70–71. King 1964, p. 77. McCarthy 2010, p. 16. King 1964, p. 75. King 1964, p. 73. King 1964, p. 80. King...
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  • NAACP. Notable among the Topeka NAACP leaders were the chairman McKinley Burnett; Charles Scott, one of three serving as legal counsel for the chapter;...
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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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    June 13, 2013. "Charles Evers's biography, PBS". Pbs.org. Archived from the original on October 20, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2013. McFadden, Robert D...
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