President Abraham Lincoln
JANUARY
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “that all persons held as slaves,” within the rebellious states, “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
Carter G Woodson
february
Started Negro History Week. In 1976 it was expanded to Black History Month
olaudah-equiano
March
Writer & Abolitionist
Nanny of the Maroons
APRIL
On 20th April 1740, she persuaded the British to sign a peace treaty after they suffered several defeats and losses by the Windward Maroons
Malcolm X
MAY
Human Rights Activist
Olive Morris
JUNE
Key organiser in the Black Women's Movement in the United Kingdom
Frederick Douglass
july
African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher and author
Martin Luther King Jr
august
Human Rights Activist
James Meredith
September
Civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in September 1962
Paulette Wilson
October
Prominent Windrush campaigner
Rosa Parks
November
American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
Make it stand out
december
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, statesman and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999