Dream like Martin⠀
Lead like Harriet ⠀
Fight like Malcolm⠀
Think like Garvey ⠀
Write like Maya⠀
Build like Madam CJ⠀
Speak like Frederick⠀
Educate like W.E.B.⠀
Believe like Thurgood⠀
Challenge like Rosa ⠀

Martin:

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s. He led non-violent protests to fight for the rights of all people including African Americans. He hoped that America and the world could form a society where race would not impact a person’s civil rights. He is considered one of the great orators of modern times, and his speeches still inspire many to this day.

Harriet:

Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in the southern United States. She then helped lead many other enslaved people to freedom. She also served the Union during the American Civil War.

Malcolm:

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community.

Garvey:

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League(UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, his ideas came to be known as Garveyism.

Maya:

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson(April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014), was an American author and poet. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry. Maya took part in several plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years. She received dozens of awards and over thirty honorary doctoral degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings(1969), tells of her life up to the age of seventeen which made her famous.

Madame CJ:

Madam C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867. She was the first African American female millionaire in the United States. Apart from being a successful businesswoman, she was also a philanthropist and an activist.

Frederick:

His brilliant speaking and writing made Frederick Douglass a leader of the movement to abolish slavery. Douglass was once enslaved himself. He was the first African American citizen to hold an important position in the U.S. government.

W.E.B.

Du Bois was a famous African American activist who advocated for equal rights for black and white people. He lived from 1868 to 1963 and was famous for founding the NAACP. He believed that black and white people should be equal in every way and worked against Jim Crow laws.

Thurgood:

Thurgood Marshall was the first African American to serve as a justice (judge) on the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall strongly supported equal rights for African Americans. Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908. In 1933 he graduated from Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C.

Rosa:

(1913–2005). Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist. By refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, she helped spark the American civil rights movement. Her action led to a successful protest action—the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955–56. Parks became a symbol of the power of nonviolent protest.