Social justice Project
HistoricalCivil Rights Leaders (Assassinated)
Josepha Segovia Mexican woman lynched by Anglos during California Goldrush. Medgar Evers Civil rights activist- murder/FBI Viola Gregg Liuzo - White civil rights activist murder/FBI Malcolm X- Civil Rights Activist murder/FBI Vernon Dahmer - Civil Rights Activist Wharlest Jackson - Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King murder/FBI Fred Hampton Civil Rights leader FBI Files Civil Rights Leaders (Survivors) Daisy Bates - Civil Rights Leader Ella Baker - Civil Rights Leader Muhammad Ali - Civil Rights Activist,Speaker, and Heavyweight Champion Bayard Rustin -Designer of March on Washington who had to remain closeted Ceasar Chavez - Labor and Civil Rights Leader Rubin Salazar - First Chicano journalist for Los Angeles Times (shot by police while sitting in a bar during a protest, still unclear whether he was targeted or not). Philip Vera Cruz - Filipino Farmworker and Asian Civil Rights Activist Grace Lee Boggs - Chinese-American feminist and human rights activist |
CurrentJuan Gonzales - Journalist, Civil Rights Activist
George Takei - Actor, Activist for LGBT and Japanese Community John Lewis -Civil Rights Leader, Activist Ta-Nehisi Coates - Writer, Activist. This is a Wikipedia entry, but he has written books and famous articles. The Case for Reparations is an article in which me makes the case that African-American people are owed financial reparations based on what was taken from and denied to them. Michelle Alexander - Civil Rights advocate and author of The New Jim Crow, which discusses the effects on society of mass incarceration of people of color. John Legend and Common This article discusses the activism of both artists. Killer Mike - Activist Alicia Garza -Black Lives Matter Founder Patrisse Cullors - Black Lives Matter Founder, LGBT advocate, Opal Tometi -Black Lives Matter Founder and Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration Police Brutality/Incarceration From Ferguson to Baton Rouge: Deaths of black men and women at the hands of police - This is a list. It is not complete. It seems impossible for me to pick out which of these names is important to know and which is not. There are more names, too many to list. That would be a project unto itself. Kalief Browder - incarcerated for 3 years without a conviction, who committed suicide after release. Sophia Wilansky - Water Protector at Standing Rock who nearly had her arm shot off. |