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Born Dovey Mae Johnson on April 17, 1914, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Dovey Johnson Roundtree was an African American civil rights activist, attorney, and ordained minister who won the 1955 Interstate Commerce Commission case on segregated bus terminals. #BlackHistoryMonth2019
Do you know who Dovey Johnson Roundtree is? Come to the Multicultural Heroes Hall of Fame Case Competition tomorrow night 6 PM in N100 BCC. #BlackHistoryMonth2019
Do you know who Loretta Claiborne is? Find out tomorrow at the Multicultural Heroes Hall of Fame Case Competition 6 PM, N100 BCC! $300 in audience prizes! #BlackHistoryMonth
Born in 1912 and raised by his grandparents in West Chester, PA, Bayard Rustin learned Quaker values of nonviolence and peace from an early age. His confidence in those beliefs and in himself were reinforced by his grandmother, Julia Rustin, who affirmed his sexuality.
Bayard Rustin organized the March on Washington in August 1963 in an eight-week period, he and his team were working the phones hard, they were typing letters constantly.
Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement in 1941 to press for an end to discrimination in employment. Rustin later organized Freedom Rides and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to strengthen MLK Jr.'s leadership.
Bayard Rustin March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!”—Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree, c. 1797 to November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered extemporaneously in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention.
“God’s time [Emancipation]is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free.” - Harriet Tubman
Known as the “Moses of her people,” Harriet Tubman was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad. Tubman also served as a scout, spy, guerrilla soldier, and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Rev. Shuttlesworth became pastor of Birmingham’s Bethel Baptist Church in 1953 He survived the bombing of his home on Christmas 1956. His wife & children were attacked by a mob when they tried enroll their children in a previously all-white school in 1957.