Gloria Richardson, known as Glorious Gloria, famously waved away the bayonet of a National Guardsman at a protest in 1963. “It was half fear and half God," she said. https://nyti.ms/2Jgiqbu pic.twitter.com/DF234NKnqD
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Gloria Richardson, known as Glorious Gloria, famously waved away the bayonet of a National Guardsman at a protest in 1963. “It was half fear and half God," she said. https://nyti.ms/2Jgiqbu pic.twitter.com/DF234NKnqD
As president of the National Council of Negro Women, Dorothy Height was part of an elite group called “The Big Six.” But photographers would often crop her out of pictures — or even requested her removal while they took photos. https://nyti.ms/2q3VEet pic.twitter.com/NRu95lPgdp
When asked about the role of women in the movement, Juanita Jones Abernathy once said, “The men ran the movement, but we were the actual bodies that made it happen" https://nyti.ms/2q3W4l3 pic.twitter.com/hUmdG8oYmH
Months before Rosa Parks took her seat on that bus, she attended civic engagement workshops. It was Septima Clark — sometimes called the “grandmother” or the “queen mother” of the movement — who developed them. https://nyti.ms/2H6Rieu pic.twitter.com/XYWM7H58tq
Dorothy Cotton went from administrative assistant to Dr. King’s inner circle. Alongside Septima Clark, she taught students how to peacefully protest even in the face of violence. https://nyti.ms/2H7BQPr pic.twitter.com/aqFiNGsWEy
Ella Baker convened a landmark meeting at Shaw University and encouraged student leaders to form their own organization. It would become the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, headed by John Lewis, now a longtime Congressman. https://nyti.ms/2H5xnwo pic.twitter.com/xCaB7llKfn
Bernice Johnson Reagon, a leader in the movement, formed the award-winning a cappella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock, to raise money for the student organization https://nyti.ms/2Jg5dzB pic.twitter.com/HlAJacdWnw
Diane Nash led students in sit-ins and helped coordinate the historic 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. She has been portrayed in the film “Selma.” https://nyti.ms/2uJpsm3 pic.twitter.com/HcNaBlFEry
"Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?” asked activist Fannie Lou Hamer. https://nyti.ms/2GypyhQ pic.twitter.com/GwzS4kBdPw
We also want your help in identifying some of the women and men who have appeared in iconic photos of the civil rights movement but whose names are unknownhttps://nyti.ms/2GuQPWp
We remember Rosa Parks ( in french) http://info-antiraciste.blogspot.fr/2016/11/13-novembre-hommage-rosa-parks-et-la.html …pic.twitter.com/7SWoP1FHqq
How sad these guys with guns must feel today (or they should) treating fellow Americans of a different color so reprehensibly just because they protested for their rights as American citizens! Fight the Hate by voting Trump & his GOP puppets OUT! #BlueWave2018 #BlueTsunami
Bull shit
@realDonaldTrump Did I miss your tweet about MLK?
Gloria Richardson is not a woman to mess with. #AmericanHero
Beside a great man is alot of great women. Thanks @nytimes for bringing these women some of the respect and recognition they deserve.
I got alot of respect for MLK JR.
Thankful for the efforts of Dr King to try to make America a good country
Of course you would .. gotta stir the pot somehow
Because a Nazi in the WH is somehow not already stirring the pot. Lmfao.
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