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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wrote uncle toms cabin
Abolitionist
Phillis Wheatley
Born in Africa, slave in Boston and educated, published poetry book in London
Walter Rauschenbusch
Baptist pastor, taught at Rochester seminary, key figure in social gospel and single tax movement
Pope Francis
266th pope, first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope since Syrian Gregory III
Keith Ellison
U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district since 2007, Ellison is a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a Chief Deputy Whip, and also serves on the House Committee on Financial Services.
John Lewis
U.S. Representative for Georgia, civil rights leader
Tammy Duckworth
U.S. Representative for Illinois, previously served as Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs
Geraldine Ferraro
In 1984, she was the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party
Fanny Lou Hamer
American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist, She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi’s Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later became the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Grace Lee Boggs
American author, social activist, philosopher and feminist, She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s, 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution
16th street Baptist Church - Birmingham, AL 1963
church bombing, 1963, Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr., Herman Frank Cash (died before charged), Robert Edward Chambliss, and Bobby Frank Cherry, first person not tried until 1977, helped pass the Civil Rights act of 1964
March on Washington 1963
Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech in which he called for an end to racism., The march was organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, who built an alliance of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations that came together under the banner of “jobs and freedom”., helped pass the Civil Rights act of 1964
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
It is noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups, its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, its legal representation for victims of hate groups, and its educational programs that promote tolerance, The SPLC’s classification and listing of hate groups – organizations that in its opinion “attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics” – has been the source of some controversy., In 1971, Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin Jr. founded the SPLC as a civil rights law firm based in Montgomery, Alabama. Civil rights leader Julian Bond joined Dees and Levin and served as president of the board between 1971 and 1979.
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Its mission is “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination
The Edmund Perrus Bridge
Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, Democratic Party U.S. Senator from Alabama and Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965, when armed policemen attacked civil rights demonstrators with billy clubs and tear gas as they were attempting to march to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery. The bridge was declared a National Historic Landmark on March 11, 2013
