Rosa Parks - refused to give up her seat to a white person, Martin Luther King Jr. - famous for the "I Have A Dream Speech", Little Rock Nine - nine students that desegregated an all white school and eventually led to the desegregation of all schools, Freedom Riders - seven African Americans and six whites–mounted a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., embarking on a bus tour of the American south to protest segregated bus terminals., Malcom X - former Nation of Islam leader and Organization of Afro-American Unity founder, Thurgood Marshall - Between 1938 and 1961, he presented more than 30 civil rights cases before the Supreme Court. He won 29 of them., Jackie Robinson - broke the color barrier in baseball paved the way for other African-American players to join the major leagues. He also led the way for racial integration into other areas of American life., Ida B. Wells - Her campaign against lynching helped to bring to light the injustice of the practice to the rest of the United States and the world., Booker T. Washington - He believed that education, black owned businesses, and hard work were the keys to African-American success., W.E.B. Du Bois - influential African American rights activist during the early 20th century. He co-founded the NAACP and wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.',

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