African americans who changed the world; an educational and important thread!
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𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 | 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 | 𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟖-𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟗: Alexander was the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics. the first black woman student to graduate with a law degree from Penn Law School. A university was named after her.

𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 | 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 | 𝟏𝟕𝟔𝟎-𝟏𝟖𝟑𝟏: minister, educator and writer, founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, first independent black denomination in the US.
Born into slavery, he bought his freedom in the 1780s and joined St. George's Church.

𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐮 | 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭 | 𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟖-𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒: was a poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. Her works have been considered a defense and celebration of black culture. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.

𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐧 | 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 | 𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟗-𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭: was arrested at the age of 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman. Because of her age, the NAACP chose not to use her case to challenge segregation laws.

Medgar Evers | Civil Rights Activist | 1925-1963:
Evers was an American civil rights activist. Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963, inspiring numerous civil rights protests which sprouted countless works of art, music and film.

Bayard Rustin | Civil Rights Activist | 1912-1987: he was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. He was a key adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.

Martin Luther King, Jr: is known for his contributions to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. His most famous work is his “I Have a Dream” (1963) speech, in which he spoke of his dream of a United States that is void of segregation and racism.

Rosa Parks; was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities.

Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919) was “the first black woman millionaire” and made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair products for black women. she was inspired to create hair products after experience with hair loss, which led to the creation of the “Walker system”

Thurgood Marshall: applied to University of Maryland Law School, but was denied because he was black. he was accepted to Howard University Law School that year. his first court case came in 1933 when he successfully sued the University of Maryland.

remember that if you decide to not say anything, if you keep quiet because you don’t “want to get involved” you choose the side of the oppressors!!
#BlackLivesMatter let their names be heard.