Marcus Garvey created organizations to help blacks feel more inpowered. I did a blog on him or something first semester.
Thurgood Marshall, lawyer then the first black supreme court justice.
Tuskegee Airmen, first african american aviation group in u.s. history. mainly flew in WWII, discriminated a lot but they still went on flying.
Malcom X, born in Omaha, NE. Out spoken, faced a hard life growing up, for a long time stayed on a good path. He was more violent than MLK Jr. was. Malcom Little was his original name, but he said it was his slave name so he just changed it to X.
Lynching, I did a project on this so I already know what it is.
Ella Fiztgerald, "first lady of song", came out in the jazz era.
Breann Lehr
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