| Derrick Johnson | Rosa Parks | Asa Philip Randolph | Fannie Lou Hamer | Madam C.J. Walker |
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He was born in Detroit, Michigan
Where was Derrick Johnson born?
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She was born in Tuskegee Alabama on February 4, 1913.
Where and when was Rosa Parks born?
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He was born April 15, 1889, in Crescent City, Florida.
When and where was Asa Philip Randolph born?
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She was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi.
When and where was Fannie Hamer born?
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December 23, 1867 in Delta Los Angeles.
When was Madam C.J. Walker born?
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Attended Tougaloo College located in Jackson, Mississippi and Mary Holmes college located in West Point, Mississippi.
What colleges did he attend?
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Rosa Parks was a civil rights leader whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who was Rosa Parks?
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He was a trade unionist and civil-rights leader who was an influential figure in the struggle for justice and equality for African Americans.
Who was Asa Philip Randolph?
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She is an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
Who was Fannie Hamer?
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The first Black woman millionaire in America and made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women.
Who was madam C.J. Walker?
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"One Voice", which was an organization that trained and connected community leaders around Mississippi and Louisiana and aims to improve quality of life for African Americans through public engagement.
What was Derrick Johnson's organization called and what was its purpose?
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Throughout Parks' education, she attended segregated schools.
What type of school did Rosa Parks attend?
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He built the first successful Black trade union; the brotherhood won its first major contract with the Pullman Company in 1937.
What was one of Asa Philip Randolph's successes?
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She became a SNCC organizer and on August 31, 1962 led 17 volunteers to register to vote at the Indianola, Mississippi Courthouse.
What did Fannie Hamer become and accomplish?
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She was inspired to create her hair products after an experience with hair loss, which led to the creation of the “Walker system” of hair care.
What inspired he to create her own hair products?
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He became the Mississippi NAACP 19th President and the CEO in October of 2017.
What was one of Derrick Johnson's biggest accomplishments?
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Rosa Parks joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and became active in the Civil Rights Movement.
What did Rosa Parks become in 1943?
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He planned a march on Washington, DC to protest discrimination in the defense industry.
What did Asa do in effort show his dislike of discrimination?
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In 1964 Hamer helped organize Freedom Summer, which brought hundreds of college students, Black and white, to help with African American voter registration in the segregated South.
What did Fannie Hamer organize in 1964?
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Walker built a business empire, at first selling products directly to Black women, then employing "beauty culturalists” to hand-sell her wares.
What was one of her Accomplishments?
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At the 2020 NAACP Image Awards, hosted by BET, Rihanna accepted the President's Award from Derrick Johnson.
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Parks was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
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Randolph was one of the founders of the monthly magazine The Messenger. (An anti-war and anti-lynching periodical that began publication in 1917.)
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Hamer began working as an organizer with a major civil rights group. She traveled around the South to educate black people about voting rights.
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She was first married at the age 14 and he real name was Sarah Breedlove.
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