Civil Rights Leaders and how they changed the world By : Noah Currier Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King Jr. was a scholar and minister. He was a Civil Rights activist, who was famous for his Speech. He played a role in ending segregation. Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was the founder and the “conductor” of the Underground Railroad. Whe from slavery she became a abolitionist. She led hundreds of slaves to freedom. After sh joined the American Civil War and was a spy for the Union Army. Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South Africa after he was in prison for- his anti apartheid work. For 20 years he had a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent defiance against the South African Government. He spent 27 years in prison for political offenses. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Frederick Douglass was a leader of the abolitionist movement. He was born into slaver many autobiographies about slavery and he life after the Civil War.

Rosa Parks was a leader in the Civil Rights. She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person and she was arrested for that. This moment in history was called the and this made efforts to end segregation. Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to go to an all white people school. She then became and Civil Rights activist. On November, 14 1960 was went to class escorted by her mother and marshels because of the mobs. She was a fearless child and can still share stories today.