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    George Raymond Jr. (January 1, 1943 – March 8, 1973) was an African-American civil rights activist, a member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
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    Gary Raymond (born 1935), British actor George Raymond (1914–1999), civil rights activist from Pennsylvania George Raymond Jr. (1943–1973), civil...
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    Bernard Lee, Lenora Taitt and Robert Zellner. Included 5 participants – George Raymond Jr., Doratha Smith, Jerome H. Smith, Alice Thompson and Thomas Valentine...
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    Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized...
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    Raymond Davis Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an American chemist and physicist. He is best known as the leader of the Homestake experiment in...
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  • George T. Raymond (May 10, 1914 – May 9, 1999) was an American civil rights leader from Pennsylvania who served as president of the Chester, Pennsylvania...
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  • Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Described by...
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    Raymond Edwin Mabus Jr. (/meɪbəs/; born October 11, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 75th...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., and often referred to shorthand as MLK Day) is a federal holiday in the United...
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    James Leonard Farmer Jr. (January 12, 1920 – July 9, 1999) was an American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for...
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    George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer...
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    Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Biography portal Adam Clayton Powell, a 1989 documentary film J. Raymond Jones List of African-American United...
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    Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early...
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  • Raymond again for his payment, but Raymond reveals he was tailing Fletcher all along. The Toddlers have stolen his stashes of evidence after Raymond placed...
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    Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will...
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    Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. (August 15, 1935 – March 1, 2021) was an American business executive and civil rights attorney who worked for various civil rights...
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    Parks was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery.: 13, 15  He was a member of the NAACP...
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    North Farish Street in Jackson. Allen Johnson, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and other civil rights leaders led the procession. The Mississippi police...
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    National Policy, 1960–1972, New York: Oxford University Press. Gregory, Raymond F. (2014). The Civil Rights Act and the Battle to End Workplace Discrimination...
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  • riding the same buses. Tribal leaders, having learned about Martin Luther King Jr.'s desegregation campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, contacted him for assistance...
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    television movie Separate but Equal,: 335  by Laurence Fishburne in George Stevens Jr.'s Broadway play Thurgood, and by Chadwick Boseman in the 2017 film...
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  • Wilkins, NAACP's executive director, clashed repeatedly with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders over questions of strategy and leadership...
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    Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights movement leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on...
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    regardless of educational background or class. Colvin gave birth to a son, Raymond, in March 1956. Colvin left Montgomery for New York City in 1958, because...
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    Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. Trained as a social worker, he spent most of his career working...
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    episode 3). Glory (1989) features Douglass, played by Raymond St. Jacques, as a friend of Francis George Shaw. In Ken Burns' 1990 documentary The Civil War...
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    separation of Black and White Americans, and criticizing Martin Luther King Jr. and the mainstream civil rights movement for its emphasis on non-violence...
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    Marion Shepilov Barry (born Marion Barry Jr.; March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014) was an American politician who served as mayor of the District of Columbia...
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    William George Zane Jr. (born February 24, 1966) is an American actor. His breakthrough role was in the 1989 Australian film Dead Calm, a performance that...
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  • Montgomery bus boycott (category Martin Luther King Jr.)
    Georgia Gilmore Robert Graetz Fred Gray Grover C. Hall Jr. Coretta Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Theodora Lacey Edgar Nixon Rosa Parks Mother Pollard...
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