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These select few people are a few of many who helped gain the rights for millions of African Americans and to help gain there equality and freedom. Through speech and through standing there ground. This showed how impactful they were to all African Americans and how they wanted to have change.

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Important People in the Civil Rights Movement

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Important People in the Civil Rights Movement

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Malcolm X

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Important People in the Civil Rights Movement

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Important People in the Civil Rights Movement

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Important People in the Civil Rights Movement

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Important People in the Civil Rights Movement

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Rosa Parks

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Fugitive Slave Law of 1793

Act to prohibit the importation of slaves 1807

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Civil Rights Act of 1875-1991

These legislation helped free African Americans and give them their rights they deserved

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Dred Scott V. Sanford (1857)
To the ones that don't know this case, Dred Scott was a slave that was sold  to Army surgeon John Emerson in Saint Louis around 1833. Scott was taken to Illinois which is a free state, and taken to the free Wisconsin territory. When Emerson died in 1843, Scott sued Emerson's widow for his freedom in the Missouri supreme court, claiming that his residence in the “free soil“ of Illinois made him a free man. He was defeated in the state courts and after 11 years it was brought to the supreme court. The supreme court ruling was a 7-2 in favor of the slave owner. This  was a first of many court rulings that showed how hard It was and still Is to be an African American.

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Thirteenth Amendment: Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

Fifteenth Amendment: Forbade any state to deprive a citizen of his vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

These two amendments alone helped African Americans get a voice In this huge world and have a say. These helped them not be scared or be alone.