Les anglonautes

About | Search | Grammar | Vocapedia | Learning | News podcasts | Videos | History | Arts | Science | Translate and listen

 Previous Home Up Next

 

History > 20th century > USA > Civil rights > Other civil rights activists

 

Willie Beatrice Taplin / Rev. Willie T. Barrow    1924-2015

 

 

 

 

Rev. Willie T. Barrow---2012 Bill Berry Award Recipient        Video        13 November 2012

 

Rev. Willie T. Barrow,

one of the nation's consummate community organizers

and respected civil rights leaders,

will accept the Edwin C. "Bill" Berry Civil Rights Award

at the 51st Annual Golden Fellowship Dinner.

 

The award is named for Bill Berry,

who led the Chicago Urban League from 1956-1969

and was a key leader in the civil rights movement in Chicago,

the award is given annually to leaders who make a mark on the nation

through hard work, perseverance and creativity.

 

Previous award winners are:

Linda Johnson Rice, Chairman of Johnson Publishing Company;

Holocaust survivor and Chicago civil-rights activist Hank R. Schwab;

legendary actress Cicely Tyson;

equal rights trailblazer Rev. Addie L. Wyatt, and James R. Compton,

who led the Chicago Urban League from 1972 to 2006.

 

YouTube > chicagourbanleague

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2qZqxhUPwI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Willie Beatrice Taplin / Rev. Willie T. Barrow    1924-2015

 

The Rev. Willie T. Barrow

(...)

championed civil rights

for minorities, women,

gay people and consumers;

opposed the war in Vietnam

and apartheid;

and mentored generations

of community organizers,

including a young Chicagoan

named Barack Obama

 

(...)

 

Ms. Barrow organized

her first civil rights demonstration

when she was 12,

protesting the fact that she

and her fellow black students

had to walk to school

in her hometown in Texas

while whites could ride

the school bus.

 

She went on

to conduct sit-ins and boycotts

with luminaries of the movement,

including

the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

and Rosa Parks, and joined in

the 1963 March on Washington

and the protests two years later

in Selma, Ala.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/
us/rev-willie-t-barrow-a-fighter-for-civil-rights-dies-at-90.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/us/
rev-willie-t-barrow-a-fighter-for-civil-rights-dies-at-90.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/03/14/
392858516/reverend-willie-t-barrow-a-little-warrior-for-civil-rights-dies

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/14/
392956011/rev-willie-barrow-remembering-the-little-warrior

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2qZqxhUPwI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > History

 

20th century > USA > Civil rights

 

 

17th, 18th, 19th, 20th century

English America, America, USA

Racism, Slavery,

Abolition, Civil war,

Abraham Lincoln

 

 

17th, 18th, 19th century

English America, America, USA

 

 

United Kingdom > Slavery

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > Vocapedia

 

slavery, eugenics,

race relations, racism, segregation, civil rights,

apartheid

 

 

 

 

 

Anglonautes > Arts > Photography > Photographers > 20th century > USA

 

Fred Baldwin

 

 

Doy Gorton

 

 

Matt Herron    1931-2020

 

 

Ernest C. Withers    1922-2007

 

 

Gordon Parks    1912-2006

 

 

James "Spider" Martin    1939-2003

 

 

Grey Villet    1927-2000

 

 

Ed Clark    1911-2000

 

 

 

home Up