8 Historic Women Who Pioneered The Civil Rights Movement

8 Historic Women Who Pioneered The Civil Rights Movement
Questions about civil rights are discussed by Charles H. Percy, right, chairman of the platform committee of the Republican Party, at Chicago session on July 20, 1960. With him are, left to right, Walter Bradford, Chicago; Diane J. Nash, of Nashville, Tenn., and Bernard Lee, of Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo)
Questions about civil rights are discussed by Charles H. Percy, right, chairman of the platform committee of the Republican Party, at Chicago session on July 20, 1960. With him are, left to right, Walter Bradford, Chicago; Diane J. Nash, of Nashville, Tenn., and Bernard Lee, of Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo)

When director Ava DuVernay decided to helm the Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic Selma, she noticed something missing from the script.

"When I first came on board the project, the women were not there at all," she told Melissa Harris-Perry in an MSNBC interview.

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