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The Civil Rights Leaders Beyond the Ones in Textbooks

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Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Malcolm X challenged America with a more confrontational vision of Black freedom. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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