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Tubman's Early Years and Escape from Slavery Harriet Tubman's name at birth was Araminta Ross. She was one of 11 children of Harriet and Benjamin Ross born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland. As a child, Ross was "hired out" by her master as a nursemaid for a small baby, much like the nursemaid in the picture. Ross had to stay awake all night so that the baby wouldn't cry and wake the mother. If Ross fell asleep, the baby's mother whipped her. From a very young age, Ross was determine
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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, Where both races wanted to have equal rights
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NAACP is the nations largest civil rights orginazation.It's more than half of a million members and supporters through the US.
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He was shot at the age of 14. with two other kids
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She sat on the fifth row on the bus, when the bus was the full the front seats were given to the while people. When they told her to move she did not agree with them.
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Group of 9 African American kids that went to the Little Rock Central HighSchool.They were prevented from entering the school.After the 14th Amendment , they declared all laws establishing segrated schools to be un constitutional.
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the 44th president of the United States. He was elected in 2008,and won the re-election in 2012.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
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Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year-old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer
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Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was an American Major League Baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era.
