Caleb Laieski –Top 5 Civil Rights Leaders
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History confirms that Civil Rights Movement (be it any part of the world) would be nothing without the daring ladies and men who battled out for equal rights and liberties. These acclaimed activists and pioneers leaders dedicated their lives to battle for civil rights of the people.
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Caleb Laieski –Top 5 Civil Rights Leaders
- 2. Farm worker and civil rights activist (1927–1993), Cesar Chavez along with Dolores Huerta founded the National Farm Workers Association aka United Farm Workers Union. A Mexican American, Cesar Chevez was known for his support for workers and farmers. He was also well known for his amazing public-relations approach and nonviolent tactics to fight for his rights. Chavez became an historical icon and the best known Latino American civil rights activists.
- 3. A very prominent American civil rights activist (1820–1906), Susan Anthony played a major role in women’s rights movement to introduce women’s suffrage into the United States in the 19th century. She travelled around America and Europe delivering speeches in favor of women rights and steadily became one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement, fighting her way devotedly for women rights.
- 4. With Elijah Muhammad as his mentor (1925–1965), Malcolm X was a prominent African- American Muslim minister and civil rights activist who advocated the rights of the black. Detractors may accuse him of preaching racism and inflicting violence with statements of black supremacy, but he constantly repeated the sufferings meted out by the whites against the blacks. “X” in Malcolm’s name symbolizes rejection of the slave name.
- 5. Asa Philip Randolph was a leader and activist in the African-American civil rights movement (1889–1979). He was also a member of the American labor movement and the socialist political parties. He led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porter – the first Black labor union. Randolph was the forerunner in the March on Washington Movement, which helped convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue orders to ban discrimination in defense industries and later managed to Pressurize President Harry Truman to issue orders to end segregation in armed forces.
- 6. Acclaimed as the “first lady of civil rights” and the “mother of the freedom movement” by the US Congress (1913–2005), Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist. Her refusal to offer a white passenger a seat in the bus came to be known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott which became an important symbol of modern civil rights movement. Her resistance against racial segregation made her an international icon.