Fannie Lou Hammer: Civil Rights Activist Born on October 6, 1917, the youngest of twenty children, daughter of two sharecroppers and the wife of Perry Hamer. A woman by the name of Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the history's wells- known, well-respected activist and philanthropist. March 3, 1977, was the day that the great Mrs. Hamer passed away due to cancer. She had been in and out of the hospital for a great part of her life, but this did not stop her from devoting her life to change. A close friend and colleague Andrew Young, a United States delegate to the United Nations, held Mrs. Hamer's funeral.
Medgar Evers Was Born On July 2, 1925 . Medgar Grow Up In Mississippi With A Farming Family. Mr. Medgar Was Pull InTo The Army In !943 To Fight Both France & Germany For World War 2.Mr. Medgar NAACP First Field Secretary & Civil Rights Leader.
Sojourner Truth was a prominent abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Born a slave in New York State, she had at least three of her children sold away from her. After escaping slavery, Truth embraced evangelical religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work. She collected supplies for black regiments during the Civil War and immersed herself in advocating for freed people during the Reconstruction period. Isabella escaped slavery in 1827, one year before mandatory emancipation in New York State, by fleeing to a Quaker family, the Van Wageners, whose name she took.
Benjamin Mays, the youngest of eight children, born August 1, 1894 near Epworth, South Carolina was raised on a cotton farm and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates College in Main. He served as a pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church from 1921-1923 in Atlanta, Georgia. Recruited by Morehouse President John Hope, Mays would join the faculty as a mathematics teacher and debate coach. He became the president Morehouse College in 1920 and launched a 27-year tenure that shepherded the institution into international prominence.
Jackie Robinson passed the law that black people could play in major leagues and made it right for blacks to play sports but it was not easy for him I Never Had It Made. Melba Beals was famous for letting black kids to go to all white schools Warriors Don’t Cry. Feng Ru brought planes to the coast and China Father of Chinese Aviation.
Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1943, he was drafted into the military and fought in WWII. (Medgar) He was discharged honorably in 1948 and returned
Grandma Gladius Civil Rights Era The Civil Rights movement was one of the major impacts in history that influenced the world in so many acpects today. When talking to my Grandmother Gladius about her personal experience when it came to the Civil Rights Era I discovered many things. The impact it had on every ascept that an African American lived in, the daily struggles and the horrified experiences that no person should have to go through. Without the Civil rights Movement, school resturants and many other things, would still be unequal between African Americans and Whites.
Medgar Evers’ assassination was unjustified because the man who killed him, Byron De Le Beckwith, was racially motivated and only killed him because Evers was African American. Evers was born at Decauter, Mississippi, on July 2, 1925. Before he became active in the Civil Rights movement, Medgar was an insurance salesman. He also served in the army during the World War II, and became the 1st field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi(“Medgar Evers Biography” Bio.com. A&E Network).
George Washington Carver started his life as a slave and worked his way to becoming a respected and world-renowned agricultural chemist. He helped develop agricultural techniques used around the world. Early years George Washington Carver was born in Kansas Territory near Diamond Grove, Missouri, during the bloody struggle between free-soilers and slaveholders. His father, a slave on a nearby farm, was killed shortly before Carver was born. Carver himself became the kidnap victim of night riders while still a baby.
Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., among others, have become household names as pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement. Mention of Thurgood Marshall immediately conjures in mind the historic United States Supreme Court Case, Brown vs. Board of Education. A. Philip Randolph immediately reminds us of the “Second Emancipation Proclamation”, Executive Order 8802 which gave thousands of Negroes access to jobs in manufacturing plants receiving contracts from the defense department during World War II. Rosa Parks is inextricably associated in the minds of millions with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. And who cannot think of Dr. Martin L. King together with the March on Washington and
Dorothy height was born in Richmond Virginia on March 24, 1912. Height was a civil rights activist along with a women’s right activist. Over the span of her career height received more than 50 awards from varies local, state, and national organizations. Some her major awards that she received were; Presidential Citizens Medal in 1989, Spingarn Medal in 1993, Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, Jefferson Awards for Public Service in 2001, Heinz Awards in 2001, and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004. While height was fighting for social reforms for both genders she was mainly focused on reforms for African American women.
The world plagued with discrimination between race, gender, and sexuality, Rustin Bayard came into play during the 20th century to try and stop it. Albeit there still being major discrimination today, he did make in impact within many people during that period. Rustin is a civil rights activist during the early and middle of the 20th century. Ever since his death in 1987, many have tried to erase his name from being a well-known civil rights lion because of his sexual orientation, so to celebrate Black History Month and to stop his legacy from fading, we should remember this great man and his achievements. Rustin is commonly known for being Martin Luther King Junior’s advisor during the 1950s through 1960s.
Dubois. Dubois was an incredibly intelligent African American and was also one of the founders of the NAACP. Dubois wanted full rights for African Americans and wouldn’t be satisfied with partial rights. With his position in the NAACP and editor of its journal, “The Crisis”, Dubois had a lot of influence. He definitely put his influence to good use in arguing against the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision, which stated that segregation was legal as long as both races had equal opportunities.
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1954, he was the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. He organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations, and economic boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. He also worked to investigate crimes perpetrated against blacks. On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated outside of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
Achievements in his life was making the Racial harmony speech in 1940, he spoke the speech for 10 years, he then talked and worked on the Importance of agriculture that helped the world a lot, his best achievement was working with his pal Booker T. Washington that was caught in George washington carver’s work, through all of this carver had made a difference in the world. As Carver was growing up, he gave the peanut speech that talked about peanuts and what they can be used and how they can change the world, while he was researching he was also a Teacher at tuskegee institute teaching students science and
