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Coretta Scott King - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Feb 5, 2024 - Coretta Scott King (1927-2006), most widely known as the wife and widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., carried on his vision of...
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Faya Ora Rose Touré - Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Fred Lee Shuttlesworth - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Nov 7, 2023 - African American Baptist pastor and the central leader of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Fred Lee Shuttlesworth (1922–2011) was one of the pioneering...
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Places Index - Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Edgar Daniel "E. D." Nixon - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Mar 1, 2024 - E. D. Nixon (1899-1987) was a long-time leader of the civil rights movement in Alabama. He worked tirelessly to increase the number of registered black voters...
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Segregation (Jim Crow) - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Feb 25, 2025 - Segregation was the legal and social system of separating citizens on the basis of race. The system maintained the repression of Black citizens in Alabama and...
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Encyclopedia of Alabama
A free, comprehensive online reference work on the state of Alabama's history, culture, geography, and natural environment.
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Joshua Burns Moore - Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Martin Luther King and Bus Boycott Organizers - Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Claudette Colvin - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Jan 13, 2026 - Claudette Colvin (1939-2026) is best known for her arrest after refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus some nine months before Rosa Parks did so and...
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Montgomery Bus Boycott - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Nov 6, 2025 - Made famous by Rosa Parks's refusal to give her seat to a white man, the Montgomery bus boycott was one of the defining events of the civil rights movement....
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Clifford Durr - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Dec 12, 2025 - Clifford Durr (1899-1975) was a lawyer and nationally respected defender of civil liberties during the post-World War II Red Scare, a supporter of the civil...
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Scott Peacock - Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Rosa Parks's Symbolic Bus Ride, 1956 - Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Virginia Foster Durr - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Dec 12, 2025 - Over the course of her long life, Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999) was a constant presence in Alabama politics and the movement for civil rights. Her life...
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Larry Blakeney - Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Massive Resistance - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Jun 26, 2025 - Massive resistance, a term originally taken from Virginia senator Harry Byrd's call for
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Miller Reese Hutchison - Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Johnnie Carr - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Feb 27, 2026 - Johnnie Carr (1911-2008) devoted her life to civil rights and to improving the lives of all the residents of her native Montgomery, Montgomery County. A...
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Galleries - Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Browder v. Gayle - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Jun 24, 2025 - In Browder v. Gayle (1956), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a district panel ruling that found racially segregated bus systems unconstitutional under the Equal...
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