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Martin Luther King Jr.

Member of the NAACP

"I Have a Dream" speech on the steps iof the Linclon Memorial

Was apart of bus boycott

Was a Baptist Minester

Worked with Rosa Parks to stop segregation

John F. Kennedy

Medger Evers death made him pass laws on racial discrimination

Wanted to stop segregation in southern states

Was a big believer in Civil Rights for all Americans

Was a president of the United States of America

Rosa Parks

Was a memeber of the NAACP

Part of the bus Boycott

Did not give up her bus seat to a White person

Was honored the Presidential Award of Freedom in 1996

Worked with Martin Luther King Jr.in stopping Segregation

Medger Evers

His death made Jonh F. Kennedy make laws against racial discriminaton

he worked with black and white people to stop segregation

Was a member of the NAACP

One of the first people to work in stopping segregation

Little Rock 9

Needed body gaurds and protection for from protesters at the school

Only eight graduated the school, for one was exspelled

Parents pulled their white children out of the school for being with black children

The first 9 black kids to go to a all white high school in Little Rock , Arkansas

Thurgood Marshall

Was a laywer and worked on a famous caes for the Supreme Court called,Plessy vs. Ferguson

Helped draft a constitution for the United Kingdom and Nations

Wanted to stop segregation

Member of NAACP