Ruby Bridges

First Black Student to Enter a Desegregated School

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Rosa ParksActivist who began the Montgomery Bus Boycott & sparked

the Civil Rights Movement

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http://achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1

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Oseola McCarty

Donated her Life Savings for College Scholarships

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Time For Kids• http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/wr/article/0,28391,93740,00.html

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil rights activist

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Nelson Mandela

led peaceful movement to stop Apartheid (segregated blacks & whites) in South Africa.

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Thurgood Marshall

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