On January 20, 1986, the United States celebrated King’s birthday as a holiday for the first time. Martin Luther King Day is observed on the third Monday in
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Daisy Bates was a civil rights activist and journalist. Daisy and her husband created The Arkansas Weekly, an African American newspaper that shared stories about
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
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
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,
