Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She went to court to help overturn bus segregation laws. She inspired many leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and helped organize student activists through groups like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

2. • Was arrested in 1955 at
age 15 for refusing to give
up her bus seat to a white
person.
• Rather than being
applauded, many people
feared her and labeled
her a troublemaker.
• Went to court to help
overturn bus segregation.

3. • Inspired and guided the
emerging leaders of the
Civil Right Movement.
• Ran a voter registration
campaign called Crusade
for Citizenship.
• Helped form the SNCC to
organize student activists
and worked to encourage
new, young activists.

4. • A major financer of the Civil
Rights Movement,
supporting the Freedom
Riders, Martin Luther King,
Jr., and the SNCC.
• Organized the We Are the
World project, which raised
millions of dollars for
famine victims in Africa.
• Honored by UNICEF for his
social and humanitarian
activism.

5. • 39th Presidents of the
United States and first
to earn a Nobel Peace
Prize after leaving
office.
• Founded the Carter
Center for Human
Rights to bring equality
throughout the US and
the world.

6. • Fought for the rights of
farmworkers.
• Founded the United Farm
Workers Union with
Dolores Huerta.
• Went on numerous
hunger strikes to bring
awareness to the
farmworkers cause, even
getting famous actors to
take part.

7. • “Grandmother of the Civil
Rights Movement”
• Founded the “Citizenship
Schools” and pioneered
teaching adult literacy.
• Worked with Martin
Luther King, Jr. as director
of education for the
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.

8. • Member of the SNCC and
Black Panthers until she
grew frustrated with their
male dominance.
• Placed on the FBI’s most
wanted list after her guns
were stolen and used for
murder. She was acquitted.
• Continues today to fight for
closure of prisons and the
rights of prisoners.

9. • Often described as “a
man who could cure the
world.”
• Co-founder of Partners
In Health, an
organization dedicated
to providing healthcare
to those who need it
the most around the
world.

10. • Self-made millionaire by
age 29.
• Was unhappy and turned
to religion for guidance.
• Gave away all his money
to charity and founded
Habitat for Humanity to
provide cheap housing all
over the world.

11. • Used his stand-up
comedy acts to satirize
racial prejudice in the
US.
• Gave a comedic voice to
the Civil Rights
Movement.
• Worked with the SNCC
in Mississippi.

12. • “I am sick and tired of
being sick and tired”
• Tired of racism and
poverty, Hamer risked her
life by registering to vote.
• Traveled to the
Democratic National
Convention in 1964 as a
representative of the
Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party.

13. • Famous playwright,
most known for her
play A Raisin in the Sun.
• Her writings reflected
her own experiences
with racism and
discrimination.
• Wrote for Freedom a
progressive black
newspaper in New York.

14. • Created the Highlander
Folk School in 1932,
which ignored
segregation lines and
taught leadership skills to
blacks and whites.
• Also worked with labor
unions, antipoverty
organizations, and civil
rights leaders, seeking to
end social injustice.

15. • Fought for farmworker
rights in the USA and was
the leader of the United
Farmworkers of America.
• Fought for better wages
and working conditions
for farmworkers,
especially on keeping
toxic pesticides off crops.

16. • Melded his two passions
together, defending human
rights and the environment,
creating the Green Job Corps
and later Green for all.
• His goal was to create
environmental jobs in poor
neighborhoods.
• Worked briefly as an advisor to
President Obama with the
White House Council on
Environmental Quality.

17. • Devoted her life to speaking
out for social justice and
change.
• Took part in pro-democracy
movements world-wide,
fighting for racial and
economic justice, women’s
rights, religious freedom
and more.
• Founded the King Center for
non-violent social change.

18. • Volunteered for the
Freedom Riders in 1961
to challenge segregation
at bus terminals.
• Spent time as chairman of
the SNCC and led
marchers across Pettus
Bridge, resulting in
“Bloody Sunday”.
• Currently serving his
seventh term in Congress.

19. • Featured in the film The
Time of Harvey Milk.
• One of the first openly
gay elected officials in the
USA.
• Dreamed of a society
where everyone shared
equal rights, regardless of
gender, race, sexual
preference, disability, or
age.

20. • Controversial filmmaker,
who uses documentaries to
express his liberal
viewpoints.
• Began his career as a
reporter focusing on the
perspective of the local
citizens whose voice was
not picked up by the major
TV networks and
newspapers.

21. • Left New York City for the
South to take part in the
Civil Rights Movement.
• Organized activists to
teach Southerners how to
read and write and learn
about their rights.
• Started the “Algebra
Project” to teach all
students the basic math
skills required for college.

22. • Sang with the Freedom
Singers.
• Later formed the group
Sweet Honey in the
Rock, which sings about
equality, the
environment, and
peace.
• Works at the
Smithsonian to preserve
Black culture.

23. • Internationally
acclaimed singer and
actor.
• Accused of being a
communist when he
spoke out against
segregation.
• Protector of the African
American heritage in
the US.

24. • Orchestrated the March
on Washington where
Martin Luther King, Jr.
gave his “I Have a
Dream” speech.
• Taught Martin Luther
King, Jr. the non-violent
ways of Gandhi.

25. • Feminist who fought for
legalized abortion,
equal pay, and the
Equal Right
Amendment, which
would outlaw sex
discrimination.
• Co-founder of the
magazine Ms. the first
magazine to published
by and for women.

26. • Author known her
works that portray the
pains and problems
women face in a sexist
and racist society.
• Fights against injustice
and for human rights
internationally, from the
US to South Africa to
Palestine.