Rosa Parks is known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. She was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1955, Rosa instigated
Carter G. Woodson is known as “The Father of Black History.” During the month of February, American take the time to embrace and honor the
Voting In March 1870, the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted giving blacks for the first time in this country the right
Judge Thurgood Marshall was a great lawyer and Civil Rights leader. As chief counsel for the NAACP, he won the historic Brown vs. Board of
Lift Every Voice and Sing was written by black poet and civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson. It was originally intended for use in a
Ida B. Wells Barnett was a co-founder of the NAACP, an anti-lynch crusader and a Black female journalist. After earning degrees from Rust College and
Paul Robeson was born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey. He was the youngest son of a minister who had been a slave.
Martin Luther King, Jr was born January 15, 1929. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA in 1948. In 1953 King married Coretta Scott
Born Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth became the first black woman orator to lecture against slavery. When asked how she received her name, she replied, “I
Harriet Tubman was one of the greatest Underground Railroad conductors. She is also known as the “Moses of Her People.” In 1844, when her master
Frederick Douglass was born a slave. He escaped from slavery at the age of 21. He became a great speaker and abolitionist. In his speeches,
