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My goal is rebelling against an unjust system and I have accepted the responsibility with grace.

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Interview with Myrlie Evers , conducted by Blackside, Inc. on DATE, for Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965). Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection.These transcripts contain material that did not appear in the final program. Only text appearing in bold italics was used in the final version…

I died of a heart attack on April 22,1950 at the age of 50. I had a heart condition and my doctors told me I should rest but I disagreed because I wanted to keep on fighting for civil rights. I said "I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8yiLq8GufI

I was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and so was Barack Obama.…

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Dear Mom,

How is everybody? I hope you and Jean is fine. I hope you'll had a nice trip. I am having a fine time will be home next week. Please have my motor bike fixed for me (pay you back). If I get any mail put it up for me. I am going to see Uncle Crosby Saturday. Everybody here is fine and having a good time. Tell Aunt Alma hello. (out of money)

Your son

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I was a lawyer that worked in Washington D.C.  First, I was the first African American to work at the Harvard Law Review. After I was accepted into the District of Colombia bar and began practicing law with my father. I also began education Africa American students and teachers at Howard Law. Later I began working on famous Supreme Court cases such as University of Maryland v. Murray and Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada. These wins led to the Brown v. Board of Education which I…

-I went to Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.

-I began attending Amherst College in 1911. I was part of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 1915 I graduated as valedictorian.

-I returned to D.C. and taught English at Howard University from 1915 to 1917.

-I was a US officer in WWI and was sent to France.

- In 1919 I returned and began taking classes at Howard University. I earned my Bachelor of Laws degree in 1922 and my Doctor of Laws degree in 1923. 

- I…

"The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried."

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My goal was to fight the "separate but equal" doctrine and get equal civil rights for everyone.

Check out this webpage. http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/about/

It's the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. It began in 2005 at Harvard Law School. It continues my unfinished work.

My greatest accomplishment was ending the Jim Crow Laws. After studying at Harvard, I became the first African American to edit the Harvard Law Review. I didn't want to stop there though. I wanted to keep on moving on with my fight for civil rights. Shortly after, I became the vice-dean of Howard Law School. At Howard, I brought our country's most powerful African American litigators and teachers. Being a primarily white law school, them being professors would have most likely been…

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I am really proud of myself and the other Little Rock Nine members because our actions eventually led to the nation's first black President. President Obama invited me and the rest of Little Rock Nine to his inauguration in 2008. President Obama stated that his success was possible because of the desegregation of schools that started with Little Rock Central High School. Obama was able to go to a good school where he was given equal educational opportunities that led to his…

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Hello there, my name is Sheyann Webb I lived in Selma, Alabama with my lovely family. My mother and father, Betty and John Webb raised us eight children, and I admire and love them dearly for it. Even though I disobeyed them, I did it with good intentions. I snuck off even though they forbid me to and I took part of a march, when they didn't want me to. This march was a major turning point and was known as Bloody Sunday. This was a 54 mile march. It was extremely brutal. If I hadn't…

I served as a judge for more than four decades on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. I was one of the so-called "Fifth Circuit Four" who played a pivotal role in enforcing the civil rights of racial minorities during the era of "Massive Resistance" to desegregation. I also, served the United States Army from 1942 to 1946 before I was a judge.…

"The Constitution is both color blind and color conscious. To avoid conflict with the equal protection clause, a classification that denies a benefit, causes harm, or imposes a burden must not be based on race. In that sense the Constitution is color blind."…

I was interested in securing effective civil rights laws, improved welfare legislation, a minimum wage provision, the abolition of the death penalty, increased funding for schools, and anti-poverty and urban renewal programs for the benefit of his constituents.

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