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African americans who changed the world; an educational and important thread!
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๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฑ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ | ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ซ | ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐: 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.
๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ง | ๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ | ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐: 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& #39;s Church.
Born into slavery, he bought his freedom in the 1780s and joined St. George& #39;s Church.
๐๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ | ๐๐จ๐๐ญ | ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐: 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.
๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง | ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ | ๐๐๐๐-๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ: 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.
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 โI Have a Dreamโ (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 โthe first black woman millionaireโ 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 โWalker systemโ
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 donโt โwant to get involvedโ you choose the side of the oppressors!!
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