Fighting For Equality:

People

Harriet Tubman

Born:

Harriet Tubaman was born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland in the 1820s.

Birth Name:

Araminta Greene

Death:

Harriet Tubman died in 1913 of natural causes.

Best Known For:

She was best known for conducting the underground railroad.

Frederick Douglass

Born:

He was born in 1817, in Tuckahoe, Maryland.

Birth Name:

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey

Death:

He died on February 20, 1895 of a heart attack.

Best Known For:

Former slave turned anti-slavery leader.

Sojourner Truth

Born:

1797

Birth name:

Isabella Baumfree

Death:

She died on November 26, 1883.

Best Known For:

She was best known as an abolitionist and feminist.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Born:

January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, GA.

Birth Name:

Death:

He died on April 4, 1968. He was assassinated by gunfire.

Best known For:

Civil Rights hero