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- Cesar Chavez - Biography of the civil rights and labor leader who founded the United Farm Workers.
www.incwell.com/Biographies/Chavez.html
- Civil Rights Leader Hosea Williams - Story about the life and death of Hosea Williams from ABC News.
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/williamsobit001117.html
- Cleaver, (Leroy) Eldridge - Tells about the life of this preacher of the doctrine of Black Power who made two unsuccessful bids for the U.S. Presidency.
blackhistory.eb.com/micro/131/33.html
- Coleman A. Young - Comprehensive profile of the politician and civil rights activist who served as mayor of Detroit for five consecutive terms. Includes photographs, audio clips from his funeral, and forum. From the Detroit Free Press.
www.freep.com/news/young
- Elijah Muhammad - Black nationalist and Nation of Islam spiritual leader who rejected Christianity as the religion of the oppressor.
www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/muhammad_e.htm
- Hosea Williams - Life story of American civil rights leader.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhosea.htm
- Martin Delany - Tells about the black nationalist who labored to see newly-freed slaves treated fairly and who urged a return to Africa. Includes excerpts from his writings.
www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/home.htm
- Randolph, A Philip - Introduces the man who played a leading role in the struggle for black rights from the 1920s through the 1960s.
blackhistory.eb.com/micro/494/22.html
- Viva Cesar E. Chavez - Biography of the Hispanic civil rights and labor leader.
www.sfsu.edu/~cecipp/cesar_chavez/cesarbio5-12.htm
- Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell - Tells about the American journalist and reformer who was known chiefly for her campaign against the lynching of blacks during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
blackhistory.eb.com/micro/635/7.html
- Young, Andrew - Biography of Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. American civil rights leader, politician, and clergyman.
blackhistory.eb.com/micro/650/54.html
- Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr. (1932-) - From the Biographical directory of the United States Congress.
bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Y000028
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