Black history is American history. The right to vote for all would not have been secured without the hard-fought, righteous movement of the 1960s. To this day, we must protect the work of civil rights leaders like John Lewis, the students of the Greensboro Sit-ins, Ruby Bridges, Coretta Scott King, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker and Nina Simone.
See a trailblazer here you don't recognize? Take a few minutes to learn their story.
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