- First African American to win an NBA university basketball game
- Broke racial barriers in sports by being a head coach for basketball teams
- Became a part of the Hall of Fame in 1975
2. T.C Williams- Kento and Yoshiya
- First school in the south to teach African Americans students and hold African American teachers
- Located in Virginia
- Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. School Board Education
3. Lewis Hine- Gabi and Andrey
- Photography of child laborer's
- Wanted address the issue to public
- Children were taken because they didn't have to be paid wages unlike adults
- Kids would be tricked and kidnapped
4. Emmeline Pankhurst- Stuti
- Woman suffragist
- Founded Women's Franchise League- helped unmarried women fight
- Women's Social and Political Union
- Received woman's rights in London then moved to America to help
5. Matthew Shepard- Malu
- Brutally attacked and murdered for being a gay student in University
- Matthew Shepard Foundation- advocate gay rights
7. Harlem Renaissance- Cheryl
- Cultural explosion in Harlem, New York
- Black civil rights
- Paintings, sculptures, and literary elements showing the Harlem Renaissance
- Didn't intend for art to join movement, just for aesthetic
8. 4.29: Sa I Gu- Euna
- Korean Americans impacted in Los Angeles by being attacked by the African American committee
- Received no help or justice for being a minority group
- 11,000 people arrested
9. Fred Korematsu- Ria
- Asian American rights activist
- Refused to go to relocation/interment camps
- Went to Court to see if it was Constitutionally right to discriminate Asian Americans
- Denied and overruled because of military
10. Emmett Till- Jay
- Murdered at 14 years old
- African American civil rights
- Murderers weren't ruled guilty for being white
11. The Japanese Fight for American Freedom- Jack
- Fights for Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbour
- Forced into interment camps
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