Lena Horne

"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.”

Lena Horne
singer, actress, dancer
& civil rights activist

Diane Nash

“Our goal was not to gain power. It was to heal the torn up community...You can’t kill somebody to make a beautiful community.”

—Diane Nash

Active in the Civil Rights Movement
including Selma Voting Rights, Founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
2003 Recipient of the Distinguished American Award

Week 12: Rosa Parks

In honor of National Women's History Month:

“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”

—Rosa Parks
Mother of the
Modern-Day Civil
Rights Movement,
named one of the 20
most influential and
iconic figures of the
20th century