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Jan 1, 1522
Bartolome de las Casas
(I could not find the exsact date so i put January 1st.) He attempted to launch a type of colonism. -
Nat Turner
He had a thiery that if bhe killed all the masters and the masters families that he could end slavery. He killed a few masters then asked other slaves if they would join and they did. They all ended up killing 50-60 people. Nat was charged with murder and was punished by being hung. -
Fredrick Douglass
Fredrick started out as a slave. Then as he became older he had started a Sunday school class where he could teach blacks how to read. He became a speaker for all slaves to stay strong. "God has a plan for us negros." he would say. He also helped people escape. -
Sojourner Truth
Was a slave who eventually escaped leaving her husband son (She eventually sae them again) because she was not being treated fairly. She later began a womans group to talk about how they would get there rights. -
Dred Scott.
He is part of the Civil Rights because he like many other, wanted to be free. So he took his dreams to court. He sued for his freedom. He did not win but it teaches us not to stop when we don't our way. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a very couragous woman. She was a slave. Her master died. They planned the slave trade the next morning and that gave her just enough time to escape to the north. She made it because of the underground railroad. She helped around 371 slave people escape from slavery to the North. That meant going back and forth to the South. She was a spy during the Civil War. -
John Brown
John brown was a very brave white man. He was against slavery and planned to end it through violence. He helped make the underground railroad and helped slaves escape to New York. He was caught helping slaves out and was hung. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was a white man who wasnt like others. When he became president in 1860 one of the things he did was stop slavery. it worked and slavery ended. But because of this, he was eventually assassinated for what he did. -
Homer Plessy
No exsact date found. Like Rosa Parks, Plessy was arrested for riding on the wrong part of the train. -
Mary Mcleod Bethume
She is famous for making a school for Negro girls and for being a school teacher. (Could not find exsact dates.) -
Lena Horne
No exsact date. She was a very beutiful woman.
She was a black acteress and dancer. during the Civil War she would entertain the soldiers and keep them strong. -
Linda Brown
The first black woman to go against the Board of Education -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is famous because of her bravery. She was riding the bus and she was sitting in thw white's area. She was asked to get out of the seat. She said no. She was arrested for this act. The day of her trail was when the bus boycott started. No blacks rided the bus unless they were free to sit where they wanted to sit. -
Malcom X
Malcom X was a man who believed that all people should be treated equally. But he wanted his way through violence. He was the first Muslim Civil Rights activist. -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby was a little African American girl who had no choice but to go to a all white public school. Every morning the six year old girl would get ready for school and was walked down to school by state marshalls. She always had to face all the angry white people beside. Shen was strong enough to face them. She is currently living at age 61 -
President Kennedy
He banned racial housing. this meant blacks and whites could live in the same nieghborhood. I could not find the exact day so i chose the 1st. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Dr. King was an African American man who strongly believed that blacks and whites with be family. He did this by saying a speech called "I have a Dream." He believed we all had a part to help. He was non-violent. -
Nina Simone
No exsact date. Nina was a very musical woman. She made music boycotting certain things and states. -
Jesse Jackson
He was Dr. Martin Luther King' s helper. Jesse and Martin wrote speeches together. He ran for president not just for himself but to set examples. People then thought because they were black that they couldent do anything. Although, he didn't win, he tryed again. He made it into the United states shadow Senater. -
Marva Collins
No exsact date. She was a teacher and a author.
