Famous Quotes
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger?
Harriet Tubman
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Muhammad Ali
The first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties. Her parents were immigrants from Guyana.
Shirley Chisholm
She helped register Blacks to vote in Mississippi and worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Fannie Lou Hamer
An American rapper, promoter, record executive, and actor. He was the leader of rap group 2 Live Crew.
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Maya Angelou
American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded a famous American Dance Theater. He brought dance and the beauty of black bodies to the fight for justice.
Alvin Ailey Jr.
African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism. He urged his fellow Black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means. His family migrated from Grenada.
Malcolm X
She mentored young, emerging activists and saw them as a resource and an asset to the movement. She organized a meeting at Shaw University for the student leaders of the sit-ins and from that meeting, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- SNCC -- was born.
Ella Baker
Born in Miami, he was a Bahamian American actor, film director, and diplomat. When he was 13 he moved to live with his brother in Liberty City. He often spoke of the racial chasm that divides the country, a great shock to a boy coming from a society with a majority of African descent.
Sidney Poitier
Who said "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Beyonce Knowles
Jamaica born, Black nationalist and leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, which sought to unify and connect people of African descent worldwide.
Marcus Garvey
She was a racial justice activist who sought to improve educational opportunities for African-Americans. She is best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida,
Mary McLeod Bethune
Co-founder and Executive Director of the Haitian Neighborhood Center Sant La, an award-winning neighborhood resource center that serves as a lifeline for the Haitian immigrant population of South Florida
Gepsie Metellus
If there's no struggle, there's no progress.
Frederick Douglass
An American professional tennis player. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time behind Margaret Court.
Serena Williams
American singer, actor, producer, and activist who was a key figure in the folk music scene of the 1950s, especially known for popularizing the Caribbean folk songs known as calypsos. He migrated from Jamaica.
Harry Belafonte
A professor and activist who advocated for gender equity, prison reform, and alliances across color lines. She was jailed for charges related to a prison outbreak, though ultimately cleared.
Angela Davis
Founder of Black Miami-Dade. She is a researcher, writer, community archivist and audio producer based in Miami. Her work centers the lived experiences of Black people in South Florida.
Nadege Green
Who said “We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.”
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
An American author, editor, and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye , Song of Solomon , and Beloved , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988.
Toni Morrison
Founding member of NAACP, he was known as one of the foremost Black intellectuals of his era. The first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University. His father was born in Haiti and descended from mixed race Bahamian slaves.
W.E.B. Du Bois
She is responsible for rescuing around 300 former slaves from the South and escorting them to freedom via the underground railroads
Harriet Tubman
She spent 6 months working closely with the Miami Herald investigative journalism team to support a Pulitzer-Prize winning series “House of Lies
Rosalie Wiley