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Nov 7, 2020 · "My parents marched and shouted in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It’s because of them and the folks who also took to the streets to fight for justice that I am where I am," Harris wrote on Instagram. "They laid the path for me, as only the second Black woman ever elected to the United States Senate."
Sep 13, 2020 · Senator Kamala Harris often tells the story of her parents’ romance. They were idealistic foreign graduate students who were swept up in the U.S. civil rights movement — a variation of the...
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Oct 25, 2020 · It was through her civil-rights activism that she got to know Donald Harris, a fellow Berkeley grad student from Jamaica. Harris was giving a talk at an event off campus, and when he finished ...
Feb 20, 2024 · ‘Let’s keep this history alive’: VP Kamala Harris honors families of civil rights activists in historic gathering for Black History Month. Descendants of Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and more attended a White House ceremony to honor their families’ legacy and impact on the country.
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Jan 20, 2021 · Not only were Kamala’s parents involved in the civil rights movement and advocated for social progress, but her grandparents held similar views.
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Feb 10, 2019 · Harris and Gopalan threw themselves into the civil rights movement, bringing a young Kamala to protests in a stroller. Gopalan met Martin Luther King Jr. when he spoke at Berkeley in 1967.
Jan 20, 2021 · He and Kamala’s mother met at Berkeley during the Civil Rights movement. Harris and Gopalan met at the University of California, Berkeley, where they were both studying for their doctorates.
