Civil Rights Movement
This leader delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
Martin Luther King Jr.
First Black President of the United States.
Barack Obama.
"Queen of Soul."
Aretha Franklin.
Broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947.
Jackie Robinson.
This free Black man challenged Louisiana's Separate Car Act in 1892 after being arrested for sitting in a whites-only tarin car.
Homer Plessy.
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in1955.
Rosa Parks.
First Black woman confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Langston Hughes.
Tennis champion with 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
Serena Williams.
This case challenged segregation in Louisiana trains in 1896.
Plessy v. Ferguson.
This organization was co-founded by MLK Jr. in 1957.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
First Black Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall.
Director of the movie Black Panther.
Ryan Coogler.
NBA legend known as "His Airness."
Michael Jordan.
Born into slavery in Louisiana, she became a leading abolitionist and spy for the Union.
Harriet Tubman.
This 1964 law outlawed segregation in public spaces.
Civil Rights act of 1964.
This future Supreme Court Justice argued Brown v. Board of Education.
Thurgood Marshall.
Author of Beloved.
Toni Morrison.
Olympic track star who won 4 gold medals in 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Jesse Owens.
Historically Black university located in Baton Rouge.
Southern University.
This movement in 1961 tested desegregation of interstate bus travel.
Freedom Rides.
First Black Vice President of the United States.
Kamala Harris.
Rapper who created the album To Pimp a Butterfly.
Kendrick Lamar.
First Black woman to win Olympic gymnastics gold.
Gabby Douglas.
New Orleans civil rights activist who integrated McDonogh 19 elementary school in 1960
Ruby Bridges.