Civil Rights Activist
Honorable Figures
Terminology
Music
100
An African american leader who believed in the use of non-violent civil disobedience to gain civil rights in the 1950's and 1960's.
Martin Luther king Jr. (MLK)
100
First African American woman to earn more than 1 million dollars by selling hair care products. This woman used her wealth to hire African American women to work for her and donated to numerous civil rights associations.
Madam CJ Walker
100
Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862. It declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free.
Emancipation Proclamation
100
The most decorated Black female Grammy Winner of all time. In 2013 she made iTunes (and music) history by selling close to a million copies in less than a week after releasing her surprise self-titled album. That album and its songs would go on to earn six Grammy nominations in 2014, making her the most Grammy Award-nominated female artist of all time.
Beyonce
200
Born February 4, 1913
This person refused to give up their seat to a white man in the 50's. After being arrested, the Montgomery bus boycott was originated.
Rosa Parks
200
The first African American President of the United States.
Barack Obama
200
A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out o f the South to freedom in the North.
Underground Railroad
200
In 2014, this women broke the record for most number one pop songs by a woman on Billboard charts. She now has a total of 11 number ones, passing Madonna and Katy Perry. In 2016, her eight album ANTi went platinum in 48 hours and RIAA Gold & Platinum history
Rihanna
300
She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on 14 November 1960.
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (Ruby Bridges)
300
An American Abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading slaves to freedom in the North.
Harriet Tubman
300
This Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S in 1865.
13th Amendment
300
The first artist to have a number one Song and Album on the Hot 100 singles charts and 200 Albums chart simultaneously this decade (The Box from his album Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial).
Roddy Ricch
400
His style, power, ring savvy and winning of an Olympic gold medal and the world heavyweight title three times was unprecedented. Considered the greatest boxer of all time.
Muhammad Ali
400
Protest in which a person sits and refuses to leave and or move. This was a way used to protest in non-violent ways in the 1960's.
Sit-In