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Frederick Douglas

Frederick Douglas. Notorious abolitionist orator (speaker) “without a struggle, there can be no progress”. Sojourner Truth. Notorious abolitionist female orator (speaker) “Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff”. Hiram Revels. First African American in the US Congress (House).

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Frederick Douglas

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  1. Frederick Douglas • Notorious abolitionist orator (speaker) • “without a struggle, there can be no progress”

  2. Sojourner Truth • Notorious abolitionist female orator (speaker) • “Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff”

  3. Hiram Revels • First African American in the US Congress (House)

  4. Blanch Bruce • First elected Senator to serve a full term ( (Mississippi)

  5. Booker T. Washington • Encouraged Technical schools • Peaceful gradual efforts toward equality • Atlanta Compromise • Tuskegee Institute • Invited to the White House • “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life…as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

  6. WEB Dubois • Encouraged universities • Whatever it takes for equality immediately • NAACP • The Crisis • “Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops man”

  7. Ida B. Wells African American journalist and editor that Wrote about lynching and the women’s rights movement

  8. Marcus Garvey • Cultural pride • “Back to Africa” Movement • “A people without the knowledge of their past history , origin and culture is like a tree without roots

  9. A. Philip Randolph • Threatened to march on Washington if African Americans did not get jobs left by WWII soldiers • “salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within”

  10. Martin Luther King • Non-violent Civil Disobedience, • Montgomery Bus Boycott • SCLC • Birmingham Campaign • “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  11. Ralph Bunche • Education, professional jobs • Brought the attention of the modern Civil Rights Movement to the attention of the world • Won the Nobel Peace Prize

  12. Malcolm X • Militant methods • “whatever means necessary” • Nation of Islam • “President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon…Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad.”

  13. Stokely Carmichael • Black Power Movement • Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.

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