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Rosa Parks #1105

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American seamstress and civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”.

Rosa Parks #1223

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American seamstress and civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”.

Scotts Borro Boys #1233

The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro, Alabama during the 1930s, when nine black youths ranging in age from thirteen to nineteen, were accused of raping two white women, one of whom would later recant.

Sis Clara Muhammad #1218

Clara Muhammad (November 2, 1899–August 1972), also known as Clara Poole, was born Clara Evans in Macon,   Georgia. She was the wife of Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Elijah Muhammad. They married in Georgia in 1917, before he changed his name from Elijah Poole. Between 1917 and 1939, Elijah and Clara Muhammad had eight children: six boys and two girls, including Warith Deen Muhammad.

SNCC #1167

Caption from the poster: On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Caroline where they had been denied service.

Sorjourner Truth #1140

Caption from poster: “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right-side up again.

The Panther Party #1084

Caption from poster: “The police have never been our protectors … With weaponss in our hands, we were no longer their subjects but their equale.”

Thurgood Marshall #1144

Caption from poster: “None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”