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Junius Griffin (January 13, 1929 – June 1, 2005)[1] was an African American Civil Rights activist working as the President of the Beverly-Hills Hollywood chapter of the NAACP,[2] who is best known for his work alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as well as for coining the term “Blaxploitation” in regard to the African American film industry of the 1970s.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Junius Griffin | ArchivesSpace Public Interface". archives.etsu.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
  2. ^ Johnson, John H. (5 October 1972) [October 5, 1972]. "Readers Rap". JET. 43 (2): 4.
  3. ^ Johnson, John H. (5 October 1972) [October 5, 1972]. "Entertainment". JET. 43 (2): 55–61.
  4. ^ Manditch-Prottas, Zachary (2022-12-27). "Black Films of the 1970s Were Something Else". Common Reader. Retrieved 2024-04-25.

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the words "black" and "exploitation", was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, the president of the Beverly Hills–Hollywood NAACP branch. He claimed...

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audiences, but they were usually not produced by African Americans. As Junius Griffin, the president of the Hollywood branch of the NAACP, wrote in a New...

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lawyer Charles Morgan, Jr., and Dr. King, Young, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Junius Griffin, Rev. James Bevel, and others on the SCLC Executive Staff. In the targeted...

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(1872). Junius unmasked: or Thomas Paine the author of the letters of Junius. Washington, D.C., J. Gray & Co. Graves, William Henry (1917). Junius Finally...

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Smith "handled the publicity" for the successful gubernatorial campaign of Junius Marion Futrell, after which Governor Futrell appointed Smith Comptroller...

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Lucius Annaeus Novatus (later known as Junius Gallio), and Annaeus Mela, the father of the poet Lucan. Miriam Griffin says in her biography of Seneca that...

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Younger, the aunt that Nero had lived with during Agrippina's exile; Marcus Junius Silanus, a great-grandson of Augustus; and Narcissus. One of the earliest...

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Pooh. It had featured the voices of Sterling Holloway as Winnie the Pooh, Junius Matthews as Rabbit, Bruce Reitherman as Christopher Robin, Clint Howard...

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(ruled 14–37 AD) and Caligula (ruled 37–41 AD). He was the father of Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, best known as a Proconsul of Achaia; his second son was...

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which is how Booth realized that he wasn't seen as the hero (like Marcus Junius Brutus) that he longed to be. After a close encounter with the Union, Herold...

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was born on February 12. That same year, Claudius betrothed her to Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, a descendant of Augustus. In 48, Messalina was engaged...

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Caepio, and his elder half-sister, Servilia, who would later marry Marcus Junius Brutus (the father of the tyrannicide) and become the mistress of Julius...

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List of attacks related to secondary schools

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States Two students 2 injured A fight involving two female students at Junius H. Rose High School lead to a student and a teacher being cut with a knife...

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about. The identity of Junius has since been the subject of contemporary and historical debate. In 1854 Frederick Griffin wrote Junius Uncovered, in which...

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Plutarch, in his Life of Publicola, describes an incident in which Lucius Junius Brutus, the first consul, has lictors scourge with rods and decapitate with...

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then fled for Egypt; Cato fled for Africa; others, like Cicero and Marcus Junius Brutus, begged for Caesar's pardon. Pompey was killed when he arrived in...

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on 1 January. However, the province had earlier been assigned to Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, one of Caesar's assassins, who now refused to yield to Antony...

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marriage to Claudius, Agrippina's maternal second cousin, the praetor Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, was betrothed to Claudius' daughter Claudia Octavia....

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standard options – would not remove the threat to the state. At first Decimus Junius Silanus spoke for the "extreme penalty"; but during the debate many were...

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Johnny Tremain (1957) – Mr. Robert Newman (uncredited) Trooper Hook (1957) – Junius Les Girls (1957) – Fanatic with 'What Is Truth' Sign (uncredited) Ride Out...

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Reports from the Threshold of Death

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(2011-09-21). "Junius – Reports From the Threshold of Death". Revolver. Retrieved 2011-10-18. Vince Neilstein (2011-10-13). "JUNIUS, OH JUNIUS, IF MUSIC BE...

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