1962 CIVIL RIGHTS
QUARTER ONE (JANUARY - MARCH) 2021 | VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 1
Most Influenti
In the February 8, 1962 issue of EBONY magaz D.C. press, radio, and TV correspondents on majority of white correspondents since Negr asked was: "What Negro leader would you c
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Dr. Ralph Bunche
United Nations Undersecretary, Pulitzer Prize winner for negotiating the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and four Arab states, and founding head of Howard University's Political Science Dept. (Photo: Library of Congress. Carl Van Vechten Photographs circa 1951.)
19%
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Rev. King was a major force behind the Civil Rights movement; including the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott and Albany Movement. (Photo: Library of Congress. Dick DeMarsico, photographer, circa 1964.)
17%
Judge Thurgood Marshall
NAACP Chief Legal Counsel and architect of the landmark, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education case. Marshall was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by President Kennedy in 1961. (Photo: Library of Congress. Official portrait of the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court)
5%
Dr. Robert C. Weaver
Weaver served as the first Black advisor on racial problems for the Department of the Interior, was Chairman of the NAACP, and was appointed by President Kennedy to the Housing and Home Finance Agency. (Photo: Library of Congress. Pat Terry, photographer. April 1942.) 12/ 0 4 6
