GRAPHIC: A brown rectangle overlayed on a photo of Civil Rights Leaders discussing the March on Washington. The test reads "The Big Six." Graphic by The Signal Editor-in-Chief Emily Nichelle Wolfe and photo courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Source: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/542002 — The Big 6 were a group of six men who fought for Civil Rights. A connecting thread between them is that they all had something to do with the March on Washington. Graphic by The Signal Editor-in-Chief Emily Nichelle Wolfe and photo courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Source: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/542002

INTERACTIVE INFOGRAPHIC: How ‘The Big 6’ led the Civil Rights Movement

By Emily Nichelle Wolfe Last updated Nov 2, 2020 6,014 0

The Big 6 includes James Farmer, Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. Representative John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young. Together, the six men helped shape the Civil Rights Movements through sit-ins, Freedom Rides, legislation, and marches.

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Emily Nichelle Wolfe is a proud Gryffindor who likes to tell people about her time working for the Mouse and Master Gracey. In her spare time, she obsesses over bad teen dramas, gets into arguments about why Star Trek is better than Star Wars and obsessively checks wait times for The Haunted Mansion.