Jane Bolin
Jane Bolin was judged as a black woman in 1939. Was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School She served on new York family's for four decades. Domestic cases, stopped probation offices from getting assignments based on their skin color. While she was doing her career she was working for Elenore Roosevelts to create programs that stop young boys from committing crimes and getting into trouble.
by: Mya
Claudette Colvin
15 year old Claudette refused to give up her seat to a white woman. March 2 1955, Colvin took the bus home from high school. The driver told her to give up her seat and she refused because she paid her fare is her constitutional right. When the cops found out she got arrested by 2 cop officers. She was the main witness in the federal law suit and ended segregation on public transported in Alabama
By: Mya
Malcolm X
Malcolm X is known in Black History Month for his important role standing up for Black Nationalism and racial pride, Mostly through his passionate speeches and strong stance on self-defense, which laid the foundation for the Black Power Movement in the 1960's, even though his approach differed from non-aggressive tactics of Martin Luther King Jr
By: Devin
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers, known in Black History Month for his critical role as the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, where he endlessly fought against segregation by arranging voter registration drives, leading boycotts, protesting discriminatory practices, and advocating for school desegregation, despite facing immense threats and aggressors in the deeply segregated south; his assassination in 1963 became a shocking moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
By Devin
Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and social activist real name Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr Born January 17 1942 and Died at seventy four years old. He lived in Louisville Kentucky U.S he started working to be a boxer at the age of 12 threw his hard work when he turned 18 he had won a gold medal In the light Heavyweight division at the 1964 summer Olympics and turned professional later that year. He joined the nation of Islam in the early 1960s, but later disavowed it in the mid 1967. Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted into the military owing to his beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam war and was found guilty of draft evasion and stripped of his boxing title. He still was one of the greatest boxers of all time.
Now we talk about one of the greatest baseball players of all time and the first African American to play baseball, Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was born in January 31 1919 Cairo Georgia and was raised in Pasadena California Los Angeles. he played footballs before he played baseball becoming a star college player with the Brooklyn Dodgers
By Dylan
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, actress and Civil Rights activist. She was born on March 25,1942, in Memphis, Tennessee and on August 16, 2018, in Detroit Mi she died. She was married twice to Glynn Turman (m.1978-1984) and to Ted White(m.1961-1969).
By Izzy
