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Women of the Civil Rights Movement

Women of the Civil Rights Movement. By Precious Barksdale February 15, 2011. Ella Josephine Baker. Born: December 13, 1903 Died: December 13, 1986 Civil rights  Human rights activist  Civil rights leader Mississippi Freedom Summer Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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Women of the Civil Rights Movement

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  1. Women of the Civil Rights Movement By Precious Barksdale February 15, 2011

  2. Ella Josephine Baker • Born: December 13, 1903 • Died: December 13, 1986 • Civil rights  • Human rights activist  • Civil rights leader • Mississippi Freedom Summer • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party • Democratic National Convention (1964)

  3. Ella Josephine Baker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Z87y6OgGc -3:11 to 3:46 

  4. Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer • Born on October 6, 1917 and died on March 14, 1977 • Voting rights activist  • Civil rights leader • Mississippi Freedom Summer • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party  • Democratic National Convention (1964)

  5. Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC3pQfLOlkQ&feature=related 1:05 to 1:25 (20 seconds)

  6. Corretta Scott King • Born on April 27, 1927 and died on January 30, 2006 • African American author, activist and civil rights leader • Active member of the NAACP  • Participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycotts • She married Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1953 • After King's death she was under close surveillance by the FBI • She was against the South African Apartheid and against homophobia during her later years

  7. Corretta Scott King • Above Right: 1970 peace demonstration at Washington D.C. • Below Left: Protest for the South African Apartheid in 1986

  8. Bibliography • Mills, Kay (1993). This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. New York: Dutton. • S. G. O’Malley, "Baker, Ella Josephine," American National Biography Online (2000). • Osborne, Linda Barrett. Women of the Civil Rights Movement. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2006. Print. • Gelfand, Dale Evva, and Lisa Renee. Rhodes. Coretta Scott King: Civil Rights Activist. New York: Chelsea House, 2007. Print. • Donovan, Sandra. Fannie Lou Hamer. Chicago: Raintree, 2004. Print.

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