• American educator Septima Poinsette Clark, known as the "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement," worked for educational and civil rights for African-Americans decades before the rise of national awareness of inequality in the 1960s?

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• at the age of 44, Roslyn M. Brock, the newly elected Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the youngest person ever to serve in the position?
• the NAACP forced the cancellation of some wrestling events in Mississippi to protest a tar-and-feather match featuring Melvin Nelson wrestling as "Burrhead Jones"?

Rosa Parks

• in October 2005, Craig Cobb told visitors to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda that he was there to celebrate the death of Rosa Parks?

Civil rights movement

• Herman Farr, an African American clergyman from Shreveport, Louisiana, single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of the civil rights movement?