• James Zwerg (born November 28, 1939) is an American retired minister who was involved with the Freedom Riders in the early 1960s. Zwerg was born in Appleton...
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    James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became...
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    reference to the Pomeranian breed is from 2 November 1764, in a diary entry in James Boswell's Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland. "The Frenchman...
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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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    James Earl Chaney (May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights...
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    Hank Thomas Joan Trumpauer Mulholland C. T. Vivian Wyatt Tee Walker James Zwerg Janet Braun-Reinitz The Freedom Rider, a 1964 album by Art Blakey and...
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    Rick (March 5, 2015). "Congressman John Lewis, Civil Rights Activist James Zwerg to Receive Honorary Degrees at Lawrence Commencement". Lawrence University...
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  • John Benjamin Murphy, surgeon Larry Rosebaugh, Roman Catholic priest James Zwerg, civil rights activist "General Facts about Appleton, WI". Lawrence University...
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    40:4–5". King James Version of the Bible. Archived from the original on November 21, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2010. "Amos 5:24". King James Version of...
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    the civil rights leaders attending were John Lewis, Bayard Rustin, James Forman, James Farmer, Jesse Gray, and Andrew Young. Actor and activist Ossie Davis...
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    portal Schools portal New Orleans school desegregation crisis Anderson, James; Byrne, Dara N. (2004). The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education...
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    laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested...
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    F. Williams Andrew Young Whitney Young Sammy Younge Jr. Bob Zellner James Zwerg By region Omaha, Nebraska South Carolina Movement songs "Ain't Gonna...
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  • F. Williams Andrew Young Whitney Young Sammy Younge Jr. Bob Zellner James Zwerg By region Omaha, Nebraska South Carolina Movement songs "Ain't Gonna...
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    : 153  Marshall faced harsh criticism from such senators as Mississippi's James O. Eastland, North Carolina's Sam Ervin Jr., Arkansas's John McClellan,...
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    Alabama. Participants also included fellow Civil Rights activists Jim Zwerg, Diane Nash, Bernard Lafayette, C. T. Vivian and John Seigenthaler; journalists...
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  • F. Williams Andrew Young Whitney Young Sammy Younge Jr. Bob Zellner James Zwerg By region Omaha, Nebraska South Carolina Movement songs "Ain't Gonna...
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    Press. 2005 ISBN 978-0-19280290-3 Matthew 5:3–12 A Dictionary of The Bible, James Hastings 2004 ISBN 1-4102-1730-2 pages 15–19. Jesus the Peacemaker, Carol...
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    L.; Reese, Charles (2014). "8. James Baldwin: Artist as Activist and the Baldwin/Kennedy Secret Summit of 1963". James Baldwin: Challenging Authors. Vol...
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  • had testified to the guilt of a white man in court—and lived. Journalist James Hicks, who worked for the black news wire service, the National Negro Publishers...
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  • from some of Jesus's remarks to his followers. Matthew 5:14-16 of the King James Version gives: "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an...
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    Alabama in 1965. During the period of the Selma to Montgomery marches, James Forman recruited him to participate in a "second front" to stage protests...
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    The Big Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil...
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    Taylor & Francis: 255–287. doi:10.2307/743322. JSTOR 743322. Henretta, James A.; Edwards, Rebecca; Self, Robert O. (January 5, 2011). America's History...
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    also owns the Young and Morrow Building at 422 Main Street. This was where James Earl Ray initially confessed (and later recanted) to shooting King. The...
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  • registration and voting more difficult. In 2005, former Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler admitted that he had shot Jackson, in what he said was self-defense...
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  • her seat on a Montgomery bus. In 1841 Frederick Douglass and his friend James N. Buffum entered a train car reserved for white passengers in Lynn, Massachusetts...
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    On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section...
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    Don Urbrock in the face with his own camera. A dozen men surrounded James Zwerg, a white student from Fisk University, and beat him in the face with...
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    James Luther Bevel (October 19, 1936 – December 19, 2008) was an American minister and leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the United States...
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