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Feb 1, 1515
Bartolome De Las Casas
In 1515, after Las Casas had traveled to the new world, he gave up his slaves and bean his arguements against encomienda. He met with dominican priest and they began to form a plan to end slavery of indians. He went to the monarchy of spain to end encomienda. They stopped the system fro about 2 years but with the decline in gold they put it back in place. he then subsituted african americans fro the indians in slavery, but regreted the situation later on. -
Elizabeth Cady Staton
American Social Activist. GAve the speech of the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848, at the first womens rights convetion. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a large part of the Women's Rights Campaign to help introduce women's sufferage. She help co-found the Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Staton and helped establish the journal called the "Revolutoin" -
Lucy Stone
Shes an abolititionist, sufferagist, and a womens rights activist. She is the first known woman to keep her own name after marrige. She helped establish the Woman's National Loyal Lueage in 1868, May 14. -
Frances Willard
American Educator, temperance reformer, and womens sufferagist leader. She helped form the passage to teh 18th and the 19th amendmant. She became the president of the womens christian temperance Union in 1879 -
Lucy Burns
Lucy burns was an American sufferage and womens rights activist. In 1913, she and Alice Paul formed the National Womens Party to help gain women more rights. -
Robert Hill
He was an African-American sharecropper from Arkansas. He was wth efounder of the Progressive farmers, and Household Union of America -
Alice paul
She was an american sufferage and activist. She helpd lead a campaign for womens sufferage that resulted in the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. comnstitution in 1920 -
Ella Baker
Ella Baker was an African-American Civil Rights leader. She started working with the organizations NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC in 1938 -
James Farmer
In 1942, he co-founded the C.O.R.E. or Congress of Racial Equality. He also was the initator an dorganizer on the 1961 Freedom Ride. this led to the desegregation of in-city transporation. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most famous Civil rights leaders in the history of the world. He helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. he aslo helped found the Southern Christian leadership Conference in 1957. He gave many speeches, but his most famous was "I Have A Dream" which he presented in March 1963. he revieved the Noble peace Prize on October 14, 1964. In 1965 he organized th4e Selma to Montgomery march. he was assassinated and is given a holiday in his name. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks in nicknamed "The mother of Freedom" becasue on December 1, 1955 sh erefused to give up her seat to a white passanger. She and Martin Luther King started the NAACP and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Daisy Bates
Daisy Bates was a large part of the Little Rock Interigation Crisis in 1957. She was a publisher and writer. The little rock interigation crisis was a time when 9 african american students were sent to an all white highschool. This eventually led to the desegregation on the schools. -
James Orange
He was a pastor and 1960s civil rights leader in America. he was hired as a fied organization in 1960 -
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was an African-Amrerican civil rights leader. She helped organize students in the 1963 Birmingham movemnt and childrens crusade. She was close with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
Malcom X
African American muslim minister. He founded the Muslim masque inc. and the organization of the Afro American Unity in 1964. He was them assassinated. -
Ralph Albernathy
Born in 1926, Ralph Albernathy was a minister an dcivil rights leader. In 1968 he took over the Southern Christian Laedership Confernce (SCLC) and led the march on Washington. He also helped organized the Montgomery bus Boycott along with Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
Charles Evers
Born in 1922, as older brother of Medgar Evers, was the leading spokes person with the Republican Party. In 1969 he became the first African-American to be elected as mayor of Mississippi City. He was active with the Regional Council of Negro Leadership. -
Marvel Cooke
Marvel cooke was the First African-American woman to work at a main stream, white-owned new paper company. She was the National defense Secretary of the Angela Davis fund in 1971. She helped form "Prisoner Rights" -
Jack Herer
Nicknamed "Emperor of hemp". He is an American cannabis activist and author of "The Emperor wears no Clothes". He a;lso founded the Help end marijuana Prohibition (hemp) -
John Lewis
AS U.S. representative for Geogia's 5th congress district since 1987. he was part of the Nonevident Coordinating committee. he helped end racial discrimination and segregation. -
Gloria Stienman
feminist, journalist, and polititionist. she became a recgonized leader for the womens liberation movement in the early 1960's. in 2005 she co-founded the womens media center.
