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Linda
Brown was a
seven year old girl
who tried to end school segregation by attending an all white school.
She and
the eight others who tried to end school segregation were named the
Little Rock
Nine. Her father filed a lawsuit against
the Board of Education to end school segregation. This
is known as Brown vs. The Board of
Education.
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Martin
Luther King Jr. led the bus
boycott started by Rosa Parks. He was a
great leader in Civil Rights. He is most
famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech.
“I
have a dream today…one day
right there in Alabama
little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with
little white
boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
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Thurgood Marshall
was the first African-American to serve as a Justice of
the Supreme Court. He also was the lawyer in Brown vs. The Board of
Education,
which is the case that ended school segregation.
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Harriet
Tubman was a runaway slave
from Maryland
who became known as the "Moses of her people". She was a
conductor of the underground railroad and returned to the south over 20
times to free around 300 slaves! During the Civil war
she was a spy and a nurse for the South.
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Rosa Parks refused
to give up
her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white
passenger, and her arrest started a bus boycott. This lasted for
more
than a year, until the buses were desegregated on Dec. 21, 1956 (one
hundred
years after Booker T. Washington was born).
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