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    Floyd Bixler McKissick (March 9, 1922 – April 28, 1991) was an American lawyer and civil rights activist. He became the first African-American student...
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    Smart - Senator Floyd McKissick, Jr. (NC) profile Follow the Money - Floyd McKissick Jr. 2008 campaign contributions Mckissick & Mckissick law practice website...
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    United States. It was a planned community first proposed in 1969 by Floyd McKissick, a civil rights leader and director of the Congress of Racial Equality...
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    which Daisy Bates also spoke briefly (see "excluded speakers" below.) Floyd McKissick read James Farmer's speech because Farmer had been arrested during...
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  • remove it. On her death the son of late civil rights leader Floyd McKissick, Floyd McKissick, Jr., was appointed to fill the remainder of her term in the...
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  • McKissick is a name and may refer to: Floyd Bixler McKissick (1922–1991), American civil rights advocate and author Floyd Bixler McKissick, Jr. (born 1952)...
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  • tensions, and he resigned in 1966, but he backed his replacement, Floyd McKissick. By 1961 CORE had 53 chapters throughout the United States. By 1963...
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  • Carson Blake Devin Doolan as Walter Reuther Marlon Bradley Ray as Floyd McKissick In February 2021, it was reported that George C. Wolfe would direct...
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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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    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role...
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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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    North Carolina Senate temporarily, following the resignation of Sen. Floyd McKissick, Jr. Henry M. Michaux Jr. was born on September 4, 1930, to Henry M...
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    In office 1942–1966 Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Floyd McKissick Personal details Born James Leonard Farmer Jr. (1920-01-12)January...
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    leaders vowed to finish the march in his name. Carmichael joined King, Floyd McKissick, Cleveland Sellers and others to continue Meredith's march. He was...
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    – political theorist James H. Madole – National Renaissance Party Floyd McKissick – SNCC Jerry Rubin – anti-war activist Adam Clayton Powell Jr. – NY...
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    Etienne, Leona Tate and Tessie Prevost) were transferred to the all-white McDonogh No. 19 Elementary School. All four 6-year-old girls were escorted to...
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    rights, including Smith v. Allwright, Morgan v. Virginia, Shelley v. Kraemer, McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, Sweatt v. Painter, Brown, and Cooper v. Aaron...
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  • compete within the Best Adapted Screenplay category. Governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe announced, on May 14, 2015, that Virginia has been selected as the...
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    Islam in Chicago. Ernest 2X McGee was the first national secretary of the NOI and had been ousted in the late 1950s. McGee went on to form a Sunni Muslim...
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  • myself wishing that somehow we could have done it another way." In 2005, James McCosh Elementary School in Chicago, where Till had been a student, was renamed...
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  • The New York Times. p. 1. Nunnelley, p. 153. McWhorter, p. 402. McWhorter, p. 387. McWhorter, p. 406. McWhorter, pp. 388–390. "Birmingham Jail Is So Crowded...
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    with many other civil rights activists, Belafonte was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. During the 1963 Birmingham campaign, Belafonte bailed King out...
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    closely met a set of minimum standards worked out in attorney Richard B. McCulloch's brief. This finalized plan would start in September 1957 and would...
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  • History, Volume 1". Oxford University Press. p. 396. ISBN 9780195148909. McCloskey, Robert G.; Levinson, Sanford (2010). The American Supreme Court (5th ed...
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