Famous Quotes
" I believe in one race- The human race. "
Rosa Parks
mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s.
American civil rights movement
An American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist with a colorful and troubling past.
Maya Angelou
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr
The resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War.
The Underground Railroad
First African American elected president to the United States.
Barack Obama
“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
Thurgood Marshall- first African American U.S. Supreme Court member
Sought to overcome the legal barriers that still existed at the state and local level preventing Black citizens from exercising the right to vote given them by the 15th Amendment.
Voting Rights Act
Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat in the whites-only section of a bus, a brave 15-year-old did the same thing.
Claudette Colvin
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass
First used by organizer Alicia Garza in a July 2013 Facebook post in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman who was wrongfully died.
Black Lives Matter Movement
An African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
Frederick Douglass