Died April 15, 1865

Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, United States

Famous for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation And giving a speech called the Gettysburg Address

Interesting fact: he worked as a lawyer and was elected to the House of Representatives.

Died January 16, 1901

Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States

He was a senator for the U.S Govorment

He was the first black American to sit in the U.S. Senate.

Died: February 20, 1895

Born in Talbot County, Maryland, United States

Frederick Douglass was an African American writer, activist, and politician

Douglass’s chosen last name was inspired by a character in the Sir Walter Scott poem “The Lady of the Lake.”

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Died July 31, 1875

Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

What he's most famous for Johnson opposed the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave citizenship to former slaves

Fun fact he owned 10 slaves and did not support blacks

Died: August 01, 1887

Born in Georgetown, South Carolina, United States

He worked as a Congressional representative (U.S. federal government)

he was the first black member of the House of Representatives

Born in Danville, Vermont, United States

He was the American congressman, was the leading Radical Republican in the Civil War era.

he was the the son of an unsuccessful farmer who subsequently deserted his family

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Died:July 23, 1885

Born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, United States

He was known for his skill on the battlefield

He was the 18th president of the U.S

Died: February 23, 1915

Born in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States

He was a Military leader

He was born a slave

Born in New Lebanon, New York, United States

He was a American politician

his father was a merchant and a local politician

Died: January 17, 1893

Born in Delaware, Ohio, United States

He organized half the Literary Club of Cincinnati into a drilling company of which he was captain

On February 15, 1879, President Hayes signed "an act to relieve certain legal disabilities of women

she served the Union army as a laundress, nurse, and teacher.

She was born a slave on 6 August 1848 on one of the Sea Islands located thirty-five miles off the coast of Georgia

Sojourner Truth was an African American equal rights activist

Truth was mostly blind and nearly deaf towards the end of her life.