Frederick Douglass
was best known as an outspoken abolitionist.
Jefferson Davis
was the leader of the Confederate states during the Civil
War.
John Wilkes Booth
assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
Ulysses S. Grant
was a general in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Booker T.
Washington encouraged African Americans to seek get vocational
training.
Slave
Treatment
Robert E. Lee was
commanding general for the Confederate forces during the Civil
War.
"The Liberator" by
William Lloyd Garrison, who was best known as a fervent
abolitionist.
Colored sign, a
symbol of segregation.
Abraham Lincoln
issued the Emancipation Proclamation during The Civil War. Though
the proclamation only freed slaves in rebel territories, it paved
the way for Civil Rights.
Statue of Martin
Luther King
Black Soldiers in
the Spanish American War
Children at March
on Washington DC 1963
Lydon B. Johnson
with King
Martin Luther
King, Jr. giving a speech in Washington.
March on
Washington in 1963
Civil Rights
Demonstrator
Protest against
Segregation
Dwight D.
Eisenhower seen with Civil Rights leaders.
Dwight D.
Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957
Harry S
Truman
Harry S Truman
desegregated the U.S. armed forces.