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                  African America History-CLICK ON IMAGES FOR BIO

 

 Martin Luther King Jr.

January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968

                        

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

 

 

 

Malcolm X

 

May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965

 
"Now in speaking like this, it doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. And if the white man doesn't want us to be anti-him, let him stop oppressing and exploiting and degrading us."

 

 

 

 Rosa Parks

 

February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005

 

"I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move."

 

 

 

Jackie Robinson

 

January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972

 

Firs African-American major league baseball player.

 

 

 

 Harriet Tubman

 

c. 1822 – March 10, 1913

 African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.