My husband couldn't get congress to pass an anti-lynching bill but, as first lady, I frequently supported black causes
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I was the first A/A to win an Oscar
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I challenged the notion of racial superiority in 1936
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I threatened to march on Washington 23 years before MLK, although, I was with him in 1963
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I established CORE in 1942
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I organised the 'don't buy where you can't work' campaign
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As a black lawyer I won nearly all cases that the NAACP asked me to pursue for them. In 1967 I was appointed the first black justice of the Supreme Court
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Eisenhower said of me that it was "the biggest damned-fool mistake I ever made" when speaking about my appointment to the Supreme Court
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I was murdered in 1955 for allegedly wolf whistling at a white woman whilst I visited Mississippi
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I used state troops to bar 9 black children from entering Little Rock
