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    Frederick Douglas Reese (November 28, 1929 – April 5, 2018) was an American civil rights activist, educator and minister from Selma, Alabama. Known as...
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  • Frederick Reese may refer to: Frederick D. Reese (1929–2018), African-American civil rights activist from Selma, Alabama Frederick F. Reese (James Frederick...
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    Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist...
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    named USNS John Lewis. Also in 2016, Lewis and fellow Selma marcher Frederick Reese accepted Congressional Gold Medals which were bestowed to the "foot...
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  • born January 15, 1929). In contrast to his peacemaking brother, Martin, A. D.—according to his father—was "a little rough at times" and "let his toughness...
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    Secretary of State. In the evening the casket was transported to Washington, D.C., and transported by a bus similar to the one in which she made her protest...
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  • T. Vivian Niecy Nash as Richie Jean Jackson E. Roger Mitchell as Frederick D. Reese Ledisi Young as Mahalia Jackson Kent Faulcon as Sullivan Jackson John...
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    "President Clinton Awards the Presidential Citizens Medals". Washington, D.C.: The White House (whitehouse.gov), archived by the National Archives and...
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    George Raymond Jr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Cordell Reagon James Reeb Frederick D. Reese Walter Reuther Gloria Richardson David Richmond Bernice Robinson Jo...
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    a speech on Islam and black empowerment by Wallace Fard Muhammad (Wallace D. Fard). Afterward, Poole said he approached Fard and asked if he was the "Mahdi"...
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    George Raymond Jr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Cordell Reagon James Reeb Frederick D. Reese Walter Reuther Gloria Richardson David Richmond Bernice Robinson Jo...
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  • Encounter in Money, Mississippi". The Southern Quarterly (PDF). Burch, Audra D. S.; Shastri, Veda; Chaffee, Tim (February 20, 2019). "Emmett Till's Murder...
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    Civil rights movement (category Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower)
    Johnson-Powell A. Philip Randolph George Raymond George Raymond Jr. James Reeb Frederick D. Reese Walter Reuther Gloria Richardson David Richmond Paul Robeson Amelia...
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    George Raymond Jr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Cordell Reagon James Reeb Frederick D. Reese Walter Reuther Gloria Richardson David Richmond Bernice Robinson Jo...
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    Reverend James Lawson has suggested that the impending occupation of Washington, D.C. by the Poor People's Campaign was a primary motive for the assassination...
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    as unconstitutional in United States v. Cruikshank and United States v. Reese.: 97  After the Reconstruction Era ended in 1877, enforcement of these laws...
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    Citizenship School teacher Marie Foster, public school teacher Marie Moore, Frederick D. Reese and others active with the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL). In...
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  • Aurelia S. Browder, Susie McDonald, Mary Louise Smith, and Jeanatte Reese. (Reese withdrew from the case in February.) On June 5, 1956, a three-judge...
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    I Have a Dream (category 1963 in Washington, D.C.)
    civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was one of the most famous moments of the civil rights movement...
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  • George Raymond Jr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Cordell Reagon James Reeb Frederick D. Reese Walter Reuther Gloria Richardson David Richmond Bernice Robinson Jo...
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    2013. Jet, October 1, 1964 Henderson Paul L, A. Scott; Thomas, Paul L.; Reese, Charles (2014). "8. James Baldwin: Artist as Activist and the Baldwin/Kennedy...
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    Thurgood Marshall (category People from Southwest (Washington, D.C.))
    ": 38  Marshall attended the Colored High and Training School (later Frederick Douglass High School) in Baltimore, graduating in 1925 with honors.: 69...
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  • systematic discrimination in employment, government, or education. The Washington, D.C., bureau is responsible for lobbying the U.S. government, and the Education...
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    of Malcolm X)'". The New York Times. Retrieved June 19, 2018. Romano, Frederick V. (2004). The Boxing Filmography: American Features, 1920–2003. Jefferson...
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  • problem—racial discrimination in interstate commerce. P. 364 U. S. 457. 2. Under § 216(d) of the Interstate Commerce Act, which forbids any interstate common carrier...
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    including Senators Albert Gore, Sr. (D-TN) and J. William Fulbright (D-AR), as well as Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), who personally filibustered for 14...
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    George Raymond Jr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Cordell Reagon James Reeb Frederick D. Reese Walter Reuther Gloria Richardson David Richmond Bernice Robinson Jo...
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    propagandist Carl Joachim Friedrich, when he mistakenly refers to him as "Karl Frederick," an error other writers who relied on Dunaway repeated. Friedrich's review...
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    Little Rock Nine (category Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower)
    of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of...
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    George Raymond Jr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Cordell Reagon James Reeb Frederick D. Reese Walter Reuther Gloria Richardson David Richmond Bernice Robinson Jo...
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