Civil Rights Activist

while always in the background shunning publicity for herself she fought for social justice & racial equality; promoted the 1st nonviolent grassroots organizations in the civil rights movement; helped found Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee & Southern Christian Leadership Conference; with George Schuyler founded Young Negroes Cooperative League in 1930; cofounder of In Friendship an organization that directed economic aid to the South's civil rights struggle; founded the Negro History Club at Harlem Library; 1964 helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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Civil Rights

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yes

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