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Some of the people that
have made a change are :
Maya Angelou: Important
African American author and orator of the
twentieth century.
Jesse Jackson: Civil
Rights activist. He was a minister and a
presidential candidate.
Martin Luther King:
Organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and founded
the southern leadership Christian conference.
Jackie Robinson: The
first African American of the twentieth century
to join major league baseball in 1947
Rosa Parks: She helped
with the civil rights , attended marches and
co-founded the Raymond Parks Institute for Self
Development.
Nelson Mandela: He is a
south African activists who fought for a nations
freedom.
Frederick Douglass: An
educated former slave who became the voice of
repressed people.
Booker T. Washington:
created unimaginable educational
opportunities for African Americans.
George Washington
Carver: Agricultural chemist whose research and
work revolutionized American farming.
Sojourner Truth: a
wonderful woman who encouraged thousands of
people to take part in the Civil Rights
movement.
Thurgood Marshall:
Showed the world the segregated society was
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