How Clothes Helped Female Leaders Convey the Struggle for Civil Rights Inline

  • Ella Baker 1944
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    Ella Baker, 1944

    BTKGXP Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986), was lifelong African American civil rights activist from the 1930s until her death in the 1980

  • Dorothy Height 1951
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    Dorothy Height, 1951

    Dorothy I Height, civil rights activist, at a Delta Sigma Theta Regional conference, April 7, 1951. (Photo by Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images)

  • Rosa Parks 1955
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    Rosa Parks, 1955

    UNSPECIFIED - Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005), American Civil Rights activist. Booking photo taken at the time of her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white passenger on 1 December 1955. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

  • Diane Dash 1960
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    Diane Nash, 1960

  • Miriam Makeba 1964
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    Miriam Makeba, January 25, 1964

    THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE - Airdate: January 25, 1964. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images)MIRIAM MAKEBA