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Hace 1 día · After Jennings, Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, and others continued to fight for equal transit rights by refusing to give up their seats. Omnibuses and streetcars were the predominat mode of...
Hace 3 días · Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
Hace 4 días · Only nine months before Parks' famous incident, a 15-year-old by the name of Claudette Colvin did the same. Her actions resulted in arrest, and she would remain locked up for several hours before her minister paid the bail. Parks did have a hand in helping with Colvin's defense.
Hace 3 días · Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 [1] – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. [2] [3] After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, [4] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known ...
Hace 3 días · Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( née Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century.
Hace 3 días · John Lewis, American civil rights leader and politician best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and for leading the landmark Selma March in 1965. In 1986 he began representing a Georgia district that includes Atlanta in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Hace 3 días · Ruby Bridges, American activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was, at age six, the youngest of a group of African American students to integrate schools in the American South. Learn more about Bridges’s life and accomplishments in this article.
