Black Freedom Fighters: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Harriet Tubman: Escaped 1849; 19 Underground Railroad missions, 300+ freed; Union spy/scout.
  • Frederick Douglass: Escaped 1838; leading abolitionist, orator, writer, statesman;著名 autobiography.
  • Sojourner Truth: Escaped 1826; abolitionist, women's rights activist; "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.
  • W.E.B. Du Bois: First Black Harvard Ph.D. (1868); sociologist, historian, civil rights leader, Pan-Africanist; "The Souls of Black Folk."
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil rights icon; Montgomery Bus Boycott, "I Have a Dream"; assassinated 1968.
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