The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition

Pattillo, Melba(1941– ): One of the Little Rock Nine who desegregated

Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.(1908 –72): Harlem clergyman and congressman

who pushed for black jobs and antipoverty programs.

Pritchett, Laurie (1926 –2000): Police chief who stifled the Albany

Movement by using restraint.

Randolph, A. Philip(1889–1979): Union leader and architect of MOWM.

Rauh, Joseph, Jr.(1911–92): Attorney who lobbied for civil rights legisla-

tion and represented the ADA, UAW, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,

LCCR, and MFDP.

Reagon, Bernice Johnson(1942– ): Albany protester and founder of Sweet

Honey in the Rock, a choral group that sings civil rights standards.

Reeb, James(1927–65): White clergyman beaten to death in Selma.

Reuther, Walter(1907–70): UAW president and financial backer of civil

rights campaigns.

Richardson, Gloria(1922– ): Led an SNCC affiliate in Maryland called the

Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee.

Robinson, Jackie(1919 –72): Broke baseball’s color bar in 1947, opening

the door to integrating other sports.

Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson(1912–1992): Alabama State College professor

who helped organize the Mongomery bus boycott.

Rowe, Gary Thomas(1934–98): An Alabama klansman and FBI informant.

Rustin, Bayard(1910 – 87): A leading activist who organized the March on

Washington.

Schwerner, Michael (1939–64): White CORE worker murdered by

Mississippi klansmen at the start of Freedom Summer.

Seale, Bobby(1937– ): Co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

Sellers, Cleveland(1944– ): SNCC program director and black power

advocate.

Sherrod, Charles(1939– ): SNCC organizer of the Albany Movement in

Georgia.

Shuttlesworth, Fred(1922– ): Co-founder of ACMHR and SCLC and a

principal organizer of Project Confrontation in Birmingham, Alabama.

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