Hattie McDaniel was born on June 1oth, 1893 in Wichita City, Kansas and died on October 26th, 1952 in Los Angeles, California. She suffered from a stroke which caused her to be admitted to the Temple Hospital,...

Claudette Colvin was an American civil rights activist born on September 5th, 1939. She grew up in segregated Montgomery, Alabama where she firsthand saw the heartache and violence many black people suffered...

Booker T. Washington was born in 1856 and passed away in 1915 from high blood pressure. He was a civil rights activist and leader in the African American community. He mostly used his voice to advocate...