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Nov 16, 1484
Barolome Da Las Casa
He figured out that enslaving the Natives, and other "lesser" beings to do they work was wrong. He fought for the rights for the Indians. He created a law taht all Indians couldn't be enslaved, but bi-yearly he had to fight to the law to be renewed, the law stop after Barolome's death in the year 1566 -
Thomas Jefferson
He wanted to end slavery, in result granted freedom of seven slaves, and was against slave trade. -
Nat Turner
He used a different (more violent) way to end slavery; he believed that to free all slaves they would have to kill all slave owners. -
William Llyod Garrison
He spoke against slavery, and for the rights of Black Americans, also create the first anti-slavery newspaper, and helped end slavery, and believed that all black people could be equal in every way. -
Abraham Lincoln
He freed the slaves of southern America, which ended the Civil war, but start segragtion. -
Fredrick Douglass
He was once a slave, but after escaping he became a poet and abolitionist. In his poems he wrote about the cruelty and evil of slavery. -
Dred Scott
He used the law system to try to get equal rights. He sued for his freedom, and after many tries in lower courts, he took his case to the Supreme Court. He died on September 17, 1858 -
Homer Plessy
He, like Rosa Parks, was arrest for being on the wrong part of the train, a violation of a racial segregation laws in Louisiana, then he started to fight against discrimination on the trains, he went to the Supreme Court; his famous court case Plessy vs. Ferguson. -
President Eisenhower
He helped protect all black children that were sent to public schools. -
Rosa Parks
She was arrested for being on the wrong part of the bus, then later organized and started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
John F. Kennedy
Ordered all laws to make the blacks as equal with whites -
John F. kenndy
He ordered for the black people have equal rights as the white peole -
Shirley Chisholm
She was a civil rigths activism, -
Shirley Chisholm
She was a civil rights activist, She fought for black collague Student to be able to go to the same schools as White Collague Sudents. -
Malcolm X
Worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to end segregation, he preached to others that they should do for their rights. After helping Martin Luther King, Jr., he ran for President. -
Medgar Evers:
He was the one who fought farther for greater education for black students. She fought for the right for black college students to be able to go to the same college as white college students. -
Dr. MArtin Luther King
He fought for the equal rights; he spoke out and fought for the equal rights for the Blacks. He was the one who started the peaceful “fights” and boycotts. -
The Tuskegee Airmen (The Red Tails)
Black pilots that fought in World War II, they were the first black military aviators. The American military was also segregated racially. -
Jesse Jackson
He worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. to get equal rights, and then later ran for President of the United States. October 8, 1941 -
Barak Obama
He was the First black president of the United States of America. -
Ruby Brigdes
She helped end segregated schools, by being the first black child in an all white elementary school, and was brave enough to go to school everyday, even with the treats she received. September 8, 1954
