civili (EE - CB 0) Flashcards

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Colin Kaepernick

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  • today : the face of Nike’s 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign
  • Sept 3rd, 2018 : “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”
  • 2017 : left the San Francisco 49ers
  • 2016 : took a knee
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Pauli Murray

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1910-1985

  • The first African-American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.
  • In 1940 she sat in the Whites-only section of a bus with a friend, in Virginia. She was arrested.
  • Civil rights lawyer and activist.
  • Transgender? Lesbian?
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Rosa Parks

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1913-2005

Associated with the start of the Civil Rights Movement (1955 - Montgomery, Alabama)

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  • formed in 1909
  • major achievement : 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka - against segregation in schools
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