W. E. B. Du Bois was a sociologist, historian and writer who challenged racial injustice through scholarship and…
Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia and became the first leader of Tuskegee Institute in…
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York and became one of the most powerful speakers of…
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
Martin Luther King Jr. led the nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s.
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and returned again and again to lead others to freedom.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.