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Civil Rights Leaders

Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X are some of the names that come to mind when we think of the Civil Rights Movement.

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But the movement was made of hundreds of heroes, some famous, and some only known to their families and localities. African American civil rights leaders are men and women who risked their economic freedom, their safety and their lives to ensure that African Americans, especially their children and future generations, received the full measure of rights due any American guaranteed by the Constitution.

After the Civil War blacks suffered greatly in the South.

African Americans became targets for enraged white southerners. Lynchings killed hundreds of blacks every year and race riots ravaged major cities like Atlanta and Wilmington. The formation of so-called Jim Crow laws mandated segregation in public facilities of all kinds.

During this time Homer Plessy, a light skinned black man was arrested for sitting in the "black only" area of a