Martin Luther King Jr

Human rights activist

AugustThe Liberation InitiativesAugust 1, 2022Featured

Frederick Douglass

African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher and author

JulyThe Liberation InitiativesJuly 1, 2022Featured

Olive Morris

Key organiser in the Black Women's Movement in the United Kingdom

JuneThe Liberation InitiativesJune 1, 2022Featured

Malcolm X

Human Rights Activist

MayThe Liberation InitiativesMay 1, 2022Featured

Nanny of the Maroons

On 20th April 1740, she persuaded the British to sign a peace treaty after they suffered several defeats and losses by the Windward Maroons

AprilThe Liberation InitiativesApril 1, 2022Featured

Olaudah Equiano

Writer and Abolitionist

MarchThe Liberation InitiativesMarch 1, 2022Featured

Carter G Woodson

Started Negro History Week. In 1976 it was expanded to Black History Month

FebruaryThe Liberation InitiativesFebruary 1, 2022Featured

President Abraham Lincoln

Issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “that all persons held as slaves,” within the rebellious states, “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

JanuaryThe Liberation InitiativesJanuary 1, 2022Featured

Nelson Mandela

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, statesman and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999

DecemberThe Liberation InitiativesDecember 1, 2021Profiles of Perseverance

Nelson Mandela

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, statesman and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999

DecemberThe Liberation InitiativesDecember 1, 2021Featured

Rosa Parks

American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott

NovemberThe Liberation InitiativesNovember 1, 2021Featured

Rosa Parks

American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott

NovemberThe Liberation InitiativesNovember 1, 2021

Paulette Wilson

Prominent Windrush campaigner

OctoberThe Liberation InitiativesOctober 1, 2021Featured

Paulette Wilson

Prominent Windrush campaigner

OctoberThe Liberation InitiativesOctober 1, 2021Profiles of Perseverance

James Meredith

Civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in September 1962

SeptemberThe Liberation InitiativesSeptember 1, 2021Featured

James Meredith

Civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in September 1962

SeptemberThe Liberation InitiativesSeptember 1, 2021Profiles of Perseverance

Martin Luther King Jr

Human rights activist

AugustThe Liberation InitiativesAugust 1, 2021Profiles of Perseverance

Frederick Douglass

African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher and author

JulyThe Liberation InitiativesJuly 1, 2021Profiles of Perseverance

Olive Morris

Key organiser in the Black Women's Movement in the United Kingdom

JuneThe Liberation InitiativesJune 1, 2021Profiles of Perseverance

Nanny of the Maroons

On 20th April 1740, she persuaded the British to sign a peace treaty after they suffered several defeats and losses by the Windward Maroons

AprilThe Liberation InitiativesApril 1, 2021Profiles of Perseverance

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