Notable Civil & Human Rights Leaders...

A. Phillip Randolph

1889 - 1979

Asa Philip Randolph was an American labor unionist and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful African-American led labor union. In the early Civil Rights Movement and the Labor Movement, Randolph was a prominent voice.

Rosa Parks

1913

- 2005

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1929

- 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

“The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be antiracist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.” – Ijoema

Harriette Moore

Harriette Tubman

James L. Farmer, Jr.

1902 - 1952

Harriette Vyda Simms Moore was an American educator and civil rights worker. She was the wife of Harry T. Moore, who founded the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Brevard County, Florida.

1822 - 1913

Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 slaves, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

1920 - 1999

James Leonard Farmer Jr. was an American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement “who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served