Black History Leaders
Was a part of the Nation of Islam.
HE is famously known for "By any means necessary."
Malcolm X
This woman owned the black newspaper Free Speech with her partner JL Fleming. Through her newspaper, she encouraged Black people to move west where they would be treated better.
Ida B. Wells
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African Americans did this with buses.Boycott
When Whites, African Americans, and all races were allowed to be together whether it is school, on buses of in movie theaters.
Integration
This woman sat on a bus and refused to give up her seat before Rosa Parks.
Claudette Colvin
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
Ruby Bridges
This woman is famous for her speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
a period during the 1920s when African-American achievements in art, literature and music flourished
Harlem Renaissance
Sit in
Civil rights protest when African American refused to leave restaurant counters after being denied service.
The nine teens came to be known, because they were the first African American students to enter into one of Arkansas' fully White schools.
Little Rock 9
Civil rights activist that participated in a freedom ride. He was also hit in the head with a cola crate.
John Lewis
. These women were the first women that the Air Force allowed to fly their aircraft.
Original Fly Girls.
Also known as WASPs
struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.
Civil rights movement
Abolish
To put an end to
Also known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
Red Tails
He was a principal of Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T. Washington
This woman disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army.
Deborah Sampson
diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that in the 1960s and '70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women
Women's Right movement
When people were killed by a mob.
This poet famously asked "What happens to a dream deferred?" Later, the movie Raisin in the Sun was created based off of the poem.
Believed that Black people should move up into seat in congress. He was born a free man.
WEB Du Bois
This woman was a first lady of the United States. from her position, she fought for Women's rights by only holding press conferences for female news reporters.
Eleanor Roosevelt
These were protests against segregation of buses. During this protest, Blacks and Whites would ride buses together through the South.
Freedom Rides
Emancipation
Freeing of people from slavery.
What is Guion Bluford known for?
First African American astronaut launched into space.