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The Montgomory bus boycott took place from December 1955 to December 1956. It was a protest started by African Americans in which they refused to use public transportation in Montgomory Alabama in attemps to end segregation on city buses. The protest began only a few days after Rosa Parks was a arrested.

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In 1968, Two African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos both raised their fists during the National Anthem at the Olymics. After winning gold and bronze metals for the 200 yard run, Tommie and John as well as Peter Norman all wore Human rights badges on their jackets and kept their fists raised for the entirety of the Anthem to represent black poverty and black pride.

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Marsha P Johnson was an African-American LGBTQ+ rights activist. She was one of the founders of the Gay Liberation Front, and spent years fighting for equal rights. She was a co-founder of the group committee, S.T.A.R (Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries) where they assisted homless transgender youth. Marsha often explained that the "P" in her name stood for 'pay it no mind', and it was a response to the many people who asked and pressuered her about her sexuality and identity.
“How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race?” - Marsha P Johnson

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Buddy Guy (George Guy), born July 30, 1936, was a blues guitarist and singer. He was very influencial to many other guitarists throughout generations. When he was a child, he picked for $2.50 per 100 pounds. He began making music with a homeade, two string diddley bow. By the  time he was 20 he began performing with bands and his career took off.
"Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best comes around" - Buddy Guy.

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Hip-Hop originated in the Bronx, New York in the 70s. Hip-Hop is defined as a culture rather than a genre. It was a way for Black and Latin cultures to connect. There are three factors of Hip-hop; Rap, Breakdancing, DJing, and Graffiti. All of these components make up Hip-Hop

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Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil, were four black men who staged a sit-in in a "whites only" diner on February 1st, 1960. They continued gathering fellow classmates to join them in their protest to end segregation. This inspired many other people across the country to do so. Their protests paid off, and the diner finally desegregated along with others over the course of months.

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The Tuskegee Syphillis Expirement took place in Alabama from 1932 to 1972 by the Public Health Service. It was an expirement done to see the result of syphillis left in the body untreated. They used African-American men as test subjects and lied to them saying they had "bad blood". In return, the men would receive free meals, healthcare, etc. None of the men consented to the true expirement, and when a treatment was discovered for the disease, the men were denied it. A total of 128 men passed away and many families were infected.

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Henrietta Lacks was an Aferican-American woman born August 1st, 1920. She died of cervical cancer in 1951 at John Hopkins Hospital where doctors removed her tumor, and without her consent, removed a sample of her cells. After she passed, they discovered her cells were "immortal" & able to reproduce infinantly without dying. The first and only human cells able to do this. They kept her cells and continued running tests on them despite her husbands wishes, and made huge scientific discoveries. They've helped with the discovery of vaccines like polio and COVID-19. They've even sent her cells to space, but sadly, this was all without the knowlege or consent of Henrietta or her family. And despite the amount of money scientists have made using her cells, the Lacks never received a dime.

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The Black Panther Party was an organization made in 1966 by two college student, Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton. It was formed as a way to protect black communities and neighborhoods againt police brutality. The two men use Malcom X's slogan, "Freeom by any means necessary" for the party.

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The Three Mothers: How the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin Shaped a nation 

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The Three Mothers: How the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin Shaped a nation 

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The three mothers is a book create by sociologist and author, Anna Malaika Tubbs. The book tells the story of the three mothers Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin. Her main goal is to ensure the contributions of Black mothers in history are not forgotten. She was inspired to write this book after visting MLK's childhood home, where she didn't find any information about his mother, who was a civil rights advocate herself. "The mother is the first teacher of a child. The message she gives that child, that child gives the world" - James Baldwin.

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Clauette Colvin was an advocate to the civil rights movement in the 50's. In March of 1955, she was arrested at age 15 for refusing to give her seat up to a white woman. Her protest happened months before the Rosa Parks bus incident, but she wasn't credided by the public because she didn't have "good hair", she was an unmarried, pregnant teenager, and many more reasons. They wanted to make sure the most "appealing" protesters were seen.
"Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all." -  Colvin.