Maya Angelou

Angelou was a fearless women and a determined civil rights activist, serving as the northern coordinator for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference in order to create the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

Marry McLeod Bethune

Bethune was an educator, civil rights activist, and she served as an adviser to 5 U.S. presidents. She worked to end poll taxes and lynching, and lobbied for women to join the military, as well as organizing protest against establishments that refused to hire African Americans.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Du Bois was a sociologist, author, and activist that inspired many Americans. In his books he would write about the horrendous situations that African Americans would have to experienced in America. Du Bois possessed the most perpetual voice on race in American history.