1. Civil Rights & Anti-Apartheid Leaders
By: Bakie Goodman
Mason Johnson

2. Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation freeing "all slaves in areas still in rebellion.“
th Amendment, abolishing slavery, added to the Constitution.
Elected as 16th President of the USA.
Big advocator in ending slavery and for black’s rights.
Laid the foundation for the upcoming civil rights movement by first giving them their freedom by the Emancipation Proclamation.

3. Harriet Tubman
Made her first trip on the underground rail road.
End of civil war, allowed to go back to her home.
Was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the U.S. Civil War.
Partook in the Underground Rail Road and saved many of her people from slavery.

4. Rosa Parks 1955 -- Rosa Parks arrested December 1 1955
Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
Was an African American civil rights activist.
Refused to move to the back of the bus to give up her seat for a white passenger.
Started a boycott and made the civil rights fight bigger.

5. aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm X
aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Begins serving 8-10 year prison sentence, and begins reading in prison.
Learns of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad
Shot and killed on February 21.
Was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist.
Was the public face of the Nation of Islam for about a dozen years.
Made the Hajj, to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim
Founded Muslim Mosque, Inc.

6. Martin Luther King Jr 1944 -- Begins attending college.
King earns his Ph.D.
Begins the Montgomery bus boycott.
Montgomery buses are desegregated.
Claims cover of Time magazine.
Meets with JFK to gain support for the civil rights movement.
“I Have a Dream” speech.
Meets Malcolm X
Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Shot and killed while standing on the balcony of his motel

7. Martin Luther King Jr
Was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
Lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Most famous speech was the “I have a dream speech”
Was the youngest person to receive Nobel Peace Prize in his efforts to end segregation by non-violent and civil means

8. Jesse Jackson
1984, A candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination
> Was a shadow senator for the District of Columbia
Is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister
Participated in the Slema to Montgomery marches with MLK
Founded Operation PUSH
One of the most recognized black politicians

9. Oliver Tambo
along with Mandela and Walter Sisulu, was a founding member of the ANC Youth League
Became Secretary General of the ANC
he was re-elected President of the ANC
Was a South African anti-apartheid politician.
A central figure in the African National Congress.
Was voted 31st greatest South African of all time.
Helped Nelson Mandela become president and with other things.

10. Helen Suzman 1978 – Won the United Nations Human Rights Award
1980 – Won the Medallion of Heroism
One of South Africa's famous members of Parliament.
fought for many years as the sole representative of the Progressive Federal Party.
Believes in the principles of democracy and equality for all.

11. Nelson Mandela 1939 -- Enrolls at the University College of Fort Hare
 founds ANC
 Elected President of the ANCYL.
 Arrested and joins 155 others on trial for treason. All are acquitted.
The ANC is banned.
 Sent to Pollsmoor Prison.
February 11 Released from prison.

12. Nelson Mandela
Was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election.
Was an anti-apartheid activist.
Was the leader of the African National Congress's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.
Lead the transition towards multi-racial democracy in South Africa.
Mandela has received more than one hundred awards over four decades

13. Walter Sisulu 1940 – Joined the ANC
Elected ANC deputy president
Was a South African anti- apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress.
Was a brilliant political net worker
Was awarded Isitwalandwe Seaparankoe, the highest honor granted by the ANC.

14. Songs
Sister Rosa - The Neville Brothers
Biko - Peter Gabriel

15. Works Citied
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