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	Richard Allen	Former Slave. Founded African-Methodist Episcopal Church. First African-American denomination
	Absalom Jones	Former Slave. Founded St. Thomas Episcopal Church. First Episcopal Priest.

Gabriel Prosser and his followers

Led slave revolt. Hanged with 34
of his followers.

Booker T. Washington

Former Slave, Educator, Activist for African-American Rights

Four Little Girls: Murdered at the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
September 15, 1963
Addie Mae Collins, Age 10
Denise McNair, Age 11
Carol Robertson, Age 14
Cynthia Wesley, Age 14

Murder in Mississippi

Three civil rights workers, two Jewish and one African-American, murdered because of their race and religion after going to investigate a fire at the Mount Zion Methodist Church in Sandtown, Mississippi, circa June 21, 1964.

Mickey Schwerner JamesChaney Andrew Goodman

Medgar Evers

Civil Rights Advocate. Murdered in his driveway, June 12, 1963.

The Children of Soweto

Savagely beaten and murdered in the name of apartheid while the world did nothing.

The Sharpsville Innocents

Fifty-six Africans 2/3s shot in the back by the South African Apartheid Police. The world did nothing.

Augustus Tolson

Slave-African-American Priest

Pierre Toussaint

Haitian Revolutionary

Fannie Lou Hammer

African-American Freedom Fighter

Sister Thea Bowman

First Black Woman to received Ph.D. in Theology from Boston College

Father Charles Uncles, SSJ

First Black Roman Catholic Priest ordained in U.S. 1891
No link available 2/9/2000

    Samuel Hammond    (18)
    Delano Middleton     (17)
   Henry Smith              (18)

Killed by the South Carolina State
Police, Orangeburg, South Carolina
February 8, 1968 for participating
in a demonstration to integrate a bowling alley.

See Orangeburg, Massacre

Dangerfield Newby

Member of the raiding party at Harpers Ferry

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