Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. This act lead to the Montgomery boycott and other events to end segregation.

Malcolm X was an African-American minister. He was a prominent figure in the Nation of Islam and a human rights activist.

Ruby Bridges is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American student to integrate an elementary school in the south.

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.