Black History Mth is the month when we celebrate black culture and what the community has done to try to make the celebrate the history and community. From the historical realities of slavery and discrimination, hatred and violence, Black History Month reminds us of history as well as the future.

There were some brave African Americans that stood their ground and that is what we will get into right now.  

Martin Luther King jr. was an African-American minister who stood up for the African-Americans’ rights. King was born on January 15, 1929. When Martin Luther King stood up and organized for civil rights he would be arrested for civil disobedience and on trumped-up charges. He was put in jail 29 times. Martin Luther King was known for his famous speech “I Have a Dream.” On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, TN he was assassinated.

Malcolm X was born May 19, 1925, in Omaha NE.  He was a Muslim minister who was also a civil rights leader. How Malcolm X changed history through his martyrdom, ideas, and speeches. Malcolm X was an amazing man just like Martin Luther King until he too was assassinated on February 21, 1965. 

Rosa Parks was also an African-American pioneer born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, AL. Parks changed history is when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Alabama. Rosa Parks was arrested December 1955 adding ot the progress in the struggle for equality. She died on October 24, 2005, in Detroit, MI.

There are way more African-Americans civil rights leaders we could have talked about but in my opinion, these were the best ones to spark the Civil Rights Movement and can actually speak for the black culture.