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Nat Turner
Nat Turner was a slave with a different way of working to end slavery. He believed that a vision of a bluish-green sun told him to kill all slave owners and free all slaves. -
Sojourner Truth
She escaped to freedom, and inspired the rest to do so. -
John Brown
he didnt know who to trust, he had planed to break into the army base and steal the weapons to free the slaves. -
Harriet Tubman
She was a conductor of the under ground railroad that freed a lot of slaves. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott also went to court to fight for his rights. He was a slave who sued for his freedom. He lost his battle in lower courts, so he took his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States when the Southern states broke away from the country. He worked hard to keep the country together and ended up ending slavery after the Civil War. -
Homer Plessy
like Rosa Parks, but sat on the wrong part of the train and got arsseted. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was once a slave. He became a poet and an abolitionist, and he worked hard to help end slavery and teach others about how evil slavery was. -
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman -
W.E.B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist -
Marva Collins
She taught school for two years in Alabama, then moved to Chicago, where she taught in public schools for fourteen years. In 1975 she started Westside Preparatory School, which became an educational and commercial success. In 1996 she began supervising three Chicago public schools that had been placed on probation. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". She refused to move from her seat on the bus for a white man. -
Lena Horne
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen -
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music -
Ruby Bridge
Ruby Bridges also helped end segregation in schools. She was the first black student at her elementary school, and Ruby had to be very brave to stand up to all the people who didn't want her there. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was president during the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. He helped pass laws to make sure all Blacks could vote and get a good education. -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers fought for black students to be able to go to the same colleges as white students. He was killed just for helping black people to get an equal education. -
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. to get equal jobs for Blacks. He later ran for President of the United States. -
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a South African anti-apartheid activist, revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first to be elected in a fully representative, multiracial.
