MARCH: Important Characters
Barack Obama
Barack Obama was the 44th and first black president of the United States. He grew up in Kenya and Hawaii, with a Kenyan father and a American mother. He was highly educated, attending Occidental College, Columbia College, and Harvard Law School. On January 20, 2009 Obama swore in as president representing the Democratic Party.
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John Lewis
John Robert Lewis was a civil rights activist and the chairmen of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC). On a day named Bloody Sunday, Lewis lead a march that ended up in police violently acting on members of the crowd. This occurred at Selma, Alabama March 7th, 1965.
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James (Jim Lawson)
American minister and a university professor James (Jim) Lawson was an activist for black freedoms. He was a missionary who traveled to India studying the ideologies of Gandhi, which influenced his nonviolence beliefs. He has been arrested and removed from his university due to his efforts. He was an accomplice of Martin Luther King Jr. and worked in many civil rights groups, such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an important civil rights figure, Baptist, and pastor. Largely known for his speech "I Have a Dream," given at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where he describes a future of equality and lack of prejudice. Unfortunately, he was assassinated on April 4th, 1968 at the age of 39.
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist honoured by the congress as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement." She refused to give up her front seat on a public bus, inspiring a huge boycott on the bussing system of Montgomery, Alabama. Throughout this she was taken to jail and also gave a spotlight for Martin Luther King Jr. when it was decided that the bussing system was unconstitutional.
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