Civil Rights Pioneers

I do consider my self a pretty knowledgeable person when it comes to history. However the new Civil Rights Pioneers series made me work.

How many of these people do you know something about?

* Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
* Mary White Ovington (1865-1951)
* J.R. Clifford (1848-1933)
* Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939)
* Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949)
* Daisy Gatson Bates (1914-1999)
* Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950)
* Walter White (1893-1955)
* Medgar Evers (1925-1963)
* Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
* Ella Baker (1903-1986)
* Ruby Hurley (1909-1980)

Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) was an African American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director who helped play a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and helped train future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. He was educated at Amherst College, where he was valedictorian, and at Harvard Law School, where he graduated cum laude and was a member of the Harvard Law Review. Known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow."[1], he played a role in nearly every civil rights case before the Supreme Court between 1930 and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Houston's plan to attack and defeat Jim Crow segregation by using the inequality of the "separate but equal" doctrine (from the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision) as it pertained to public education in the United States was the masterstroke that brought about the landmark Brown decision.

Without googling, a complete blank. Unfortunately I know nothing about any of them!

I'm with you Tom

But I'll know all about them by tomorrow thanks to you Mk. Isn't this hobby great.

Dianne

The only ones I have heard of are Oswald Garrison Villard, Walter White and Medgar Evers.

Villard is the grandson of William Lloyd Garrison who was the famous abolitionist of the 1830's and publisher of the "Liberator". Villard was a journalist and writer in his on right.

I'm not from the U.S., but I have heard the name Daisy Bates. Couldn't tell you what she is famous for though.

Steve

OK now I know...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_...ts_activist)

Steve

I just knew about Charles Hamilton Houston because I read about him in law school

The only one that I knew was Medgar Evers. There was a movie that I watched though I can't remember the name.

Was it the Ghosts of Mississipi...a trial movie with Alec Baldwin? but its about Medgar Evers' killer

I bought mine today and this series is not a bad looking one, if I get around to it I will post a photo.

Medgar Evers is the only one I am familiar with..i remember when the cowardly *#@!)^ 's shot him in the 1960's.

Yeah it takes a lot of guts to shoot someone with a hunting rifle while they are in their car. I think that should be the same penalty for the shooter.

is that what people call "equal justice"? hehe

I don't know any of them nor have a bought a sheet yet. Isn't it nice to learn something new, just because of a stamp?

Yes it is....in fact..when I have kids f my own in the future..I will encourage them to take up this hobby...From stamps, one can learn the different countriesof the world, a people's culture, sports, geography, flora and fauna and so on...the possibilities of learning is endless