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joined the crowd. People within the movement are also participants in other organizations who feel that their goals are being pushed forward by the campaign, such as "
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On June 23, the campaign hung two banners on both sides of a raised stage at the
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The new movement aims to address the issues that Martin Luther King Jr. spoke against in his original campaign.
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2826:"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"
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2841:"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
1296:Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
1269:University of Chicago sit-ins
1036:Davis v. Prince Edward County
695:Moore, Katie (June 4, 2018).
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3207:National Civil Rights Museum
3063:March on Washington Movement
3048:Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
1517:Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.
333:Husted v. Randolph Institute
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1120:Civil Rights Act of 1957
563:"America's Moral Malady"
263:Our Children, Our Future
3102:Voter Education Project
2856:"We Shall Not Be Moved"
2517:Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
1952:Josephine Dobbs Clement
1378:Chester school protests
1373:Twenty-fourth Amendment
1335:Detroit Walk to Freedom
1077:Tallahassee bus boycott
998:Baton Rouge bus boycott
561:II, William J. Barber.
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2557:Bernice Johnson Reagon
2277:Martin Luther King Sr.
2272:Martin Luther King Jr.
1842:William Holmes Borders
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1504:Poor People's Campaign
1357:St. Augustine movement
1207:Gomillion v. Lightfoot
1130:Katz Drug Store sit-in
1101:Royal Ice Cream sit-in
1063:Montgomery bus boycott
196:Martin Luther King Jr.
188:Poor People's Campaign
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3150:Civil Rights Memorial
3038:Bethel Baptist Church
2687:Charles Kenzie Steele
2132:Audrey Faye Hendricks
2037:Myrlie Evers-Williams
2017:Patricia Stephens Due
1987:Abraham Lincoln Davis
1922:Colia Lafayette Clark
1676:Operation Breadbasket
1671:National Urban League
1418:Katzenbach v. McClung
1286:Atlanta's Berlin Wall
939:Civil rights movement
539:www.blackpressusa.com
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3170:Freedom Rides Museum
3107:1960s counterculture
3058:Edmund Pettus Bridge
2737:Walter Francis White
2642:Alexander D. Shimkin
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1125:Ministers' Manifesto
972:Executive Order 9981
302:Nashville, Tennessee
208:King's assassination
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2894:Sermon on the Mount
2861:"We Shall Overcome"
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2222:Frank Minis Johnson
2197:Richie Jean Jackson
2152:Donald L. Hollowell
1957:Charles E. Cobb Jr.
1762:Gwendolyn Armstrong
1757:William G. Anderson
1737:Victoria Gray Adams
1701:The Freedom Singers
1555:Black Panther Party
1340:March on Washington
1253:Garner v. Louisiana
1214:Boynton v. Virginia
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846:Miranda, Shauneen.
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3002:Loving v. Virginia
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2960:Plessy v. Ferguson
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2647:Fred Shuttlesworth
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2192:Jimmie Lee Jackson
2117:William E. Harbour
1897:Stokely Carmichael
1812:Randolph Blackwell
1482:King assassination
1471:Loving v. Virginia
1455:March Against Fear
1435:How Long, Not Long
1313:Children's Crusade
1264:Cambridge movement
1201:Ax Handle Saturday
1166:Greensboro sit-ins
1093:Give Us the Ballot
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2282:Bernard Lafayette
2012:John Wesley Dobbs
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1029:Briggs v. Elliott
1022:Bolling v. Sharpe
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2762:Q. V. Williamson
2727:Wyatt Tee Walker
2592:Bernice Robinson
2537:Lincoln Ragsdale
2527:Rodney N. Powell
2422:Douglas E. Moore
2297:Sanford R. Leigh
2232:J. Charles Jones
2107:Fannie Lou Hamer
2022:Joseph Ellwanger
1982:Jonathan Daniels
1972:Claudette Colvin
1962:Annie Lee Cooper
1947:Kathleen Cleaver
1942:Eldridge Cleaver
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1937:Xernona Clayton
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