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Famous African American Leaders
By: Arushi (Sushi), Toby, Skylar
Ida Wells-Barnett
Who was Ida Wells-Barnett, you ask? Only one of American's greatest African American leaders during the Civil Rights movement. Her parents had been enslaved. She was born in Mississippi in 1895. After 1895, she lived in Chicago. In Chicago, she worked for a newspaper, where she wrote about putting an end to violence against African Americans. She also gave speeches about putting an end to violence against African Americans.
Ida Wells-Barnett
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune believed that in order to receive racial equality and civil rights, education was the right way. In 1904, in Daytona Beach, Florida, Mary was responsible for creating a school for African American girls. Later, her school was named Bethune-Cookman College. From 1936 to 1945, she told President Franklin D. Roosevelt about issues that African Americans and other groups faced.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Womens' Rights' Leaders
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized a meeting, in July 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, to talk about why women need suffrage and other rights. It was called the Seneca Falls Convention. About 250 people came. She, Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt were on a postage stamp.
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton declared that, "[Man] has compelled [woman] to submit to laws, in the formation of which she was no voice." In 1851, Susan B. Anthony joined Stanton and led what was called "Women Sufferage" movement for 50 years.In 1869, she and Susan B. Anthony made the National Woman Suffrage Rights.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton