Civil Rights Leaders

Civil Rights Leaders

1. Daisy Bates- led the Little Rock Nine through the challenges of desegregation

2. Abraham Lincoln- promulgated the Emancipation Proclamation

3. Rosa Parks- refused to give up her bus seat for a white man and inspired others to stand up

4. Martin Luther King Jr.- led peaceful forms of protest throughout the 1960s

5. Thurgood Marshall- a courageous civil rights lawyer who fought against segregation, the law of the land at the time

6. The Little Rock Nine- the first students brave enough to enforce desegregation