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Mary McLeod Bethune

This person was a Black activist that started a girls' school in Florida.

Mary Church Terrell

This person was moved by the lynching of a man and was never happy regarding the role that their father wanted for them in society.

Thomas Moss

This person was hanged in Memphis, Tennessee.

Ida B. Wells

This person was a journalist who wrote about violence against Blacks in the 1800s.

Fannie Barrier Williams

This person was selected as one of the few Black speakers at the World Columbian Exposition of 1893.

Ferdinand Barnett

This person was an attorney and publisher of THE CONSERVATOR.

Charlotte Hawkins Brown

This person grew up in a family of nineteen.

Madam C.J. Walker

This person was an orphan who married at the age of fourteen.

Zora Neal Hurston

This person was a student at Howard University and became a famed novelist.

Rosa Parks

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