Absolutely true, and you could also give some credit to President Truman, arguably the first President to do something definitive about civil rights when he integrated the military by executive order in 1948.
Or you could give a shout out to A. Philip Randolph, who pressed for, and received, equal pay for blacks who were working in defense industries in World War II, again by executive order of the President at the time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Or even the artists of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920's, including Langston Hughes, who helped to define African-American culture outside the constraints of slavery or segregation for really the first time, and gave blacks a sense of identity and self worth.
Lots of fine candidates for you to choose from, and I don't think you can go wrong with any of them, actually.
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