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Dr. C. Fitzgerald Wicks

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Six Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement

Though their stories are sometimes overlooked, these women were instrumental in the fight for equal rights for African-Americans. HADLEY MEARES UPDATED:JAN 19, 2021ORIGINAL:FEB 5, 2018 While their stories may not be widely known, countless dedicated, courageous women were key organizers and activists in the fight for civil rights. Without these women, the struggle for equality would…

Though their stories are sometimes overlooked, these women were instrumental in the fight for equal rights for African-Americans.

While their stories may not be widely known, countless dedicated, courageous women were key organizers and activists in the fight for civil rights. Without these women, the struggle for equality would have never been waged. “Women have been the backbone of the whole civil rights movement,” activist Coretta Scott King asserted in the magazine New Lady in 1966. Here are a few of their stories.

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