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    1. The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

      The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago. We delved into photo archives to pull out the lesser told stories of a few of the female leaders inside the movement.https://nyti.ms/2uJ74tx 

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    2. The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

      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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      The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

      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

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        2. The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

          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

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        3. The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

          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

          9 replies 231 retweets 438 likes
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        4. The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

          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

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        5. The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

          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

          10 replies 141 retweets 290 likes
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        6. The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

          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

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        7. The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

          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

          3 replies 99 retweets 252 likes
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        8. The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

          "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

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        9. The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 3

          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 

          4 replies 129 retweets 258 likes
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        1. Jeroen D‏ @Yerune_D Apr 4
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          Jeroen D Retweeted BIJ1

          You mean like this by @BIJ1 ?https://twitter.com/PolitiekBIJ1/status/979663868908785664 …

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          BIJ1 @PolitiekBIJ1
          Chapeau Forum! Na de beëdiging in de raad volgen de felicitaties. In een onbewaakt moment zag FvD kans snel een foto te maken voor eigen propaganda. pic.twitter.com/1nM6a2ahbH
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        1.  🌀Publius 🌀‏ @PlusHonorUMRA Apr 3
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          you should know what happened to james farmer...

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