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The 'Big Six' Organizers of the Civil Rights Movement (betrayed their people for a million dollars)?
The "Big Six" Civil Rights Leaders (L to R) John Lewis, Whitney Young Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer Jr., and Roy Wilkins.
The "Big Six" is a term used to describe the six most prominent Black civil rights leaders during the 1960s.
The "Big Six" includes labor organizer Asa Philip Randolph; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; James Farmer Jr. of the Congress Of Racial Equality; John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); the National Urban League's Whitney Young, Jr.; and Roy Wilkins of the NAACP.
These men were linchpins of power behind the movement and would be responsible for organizing the March on Washington, which took place in the nation's capital in 1963.
A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979)
The National Urban League was established in 1910 to help Black people find employment, housing, and other resources once they’d reached urban environments as part of the Great Migration. The mission of the organization was “to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.” By the 1950s, the organization was still in existence but was considered a passive civil rights organization.
But when Young became the organization’s executive director in 1961, his goal was to expand the NUL’s reach. Within four years, the NUL went from 38 to 1,600 employees and its annual budget rose from $325,000 to $6.1 million.2
Young worked with other leaders of the civil rights movement to organize the March on Washington in 1963. In the years ahead, Young would continue to expand the mission of the NUL while also serving as a civil rights adviser to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Roy Wilkins (1901-1971)
Roy Wilkins may have begun his career as a journalist at Black newspapers such as The Appeal and The Call, but his tenure as a civil rights activist has made him a part of history.
Wilkins began a long career with the NAACP in 1931 when he was appointed as assistant secretary to Walter Francis White. Three years later, when W.E.B. Du Bois left the NAACP, Wilkins became editor of The Crisis. By 1950, Wilkins was working with A. Philip Randolph and Arnold Johnson to establish the
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The Under Told Story Of 'The Big Six,' Organizers Of The Civil Rights Movement
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MLK soldout for $1 million, thats why they had to kill him, a martyr, hero was needed