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**1.Bobby Seale** was an activist and was known for Co-founding the Black Panthers. He was born in October 22, 1936. He came from Dallas, Texas and moved later in life to Oakland, California during the World War ll. in October 1966 him and Huey Newton created the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and adopt the slain activist's. Seale became the chairman of the Black Panther Party and underwent FBI surveillance as part of its COINTELPRO program. **2.Charles Houston** was a prominent African American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School, and NAACP Litigation Director who played a significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws. Was born in September 3, 1895 Washington, D.C. **3.Dwight D. Eisenhower** was born in October 14, 1890. He was the 34th president of the United States from 1953 until 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 and the successful invasion of France and Germany, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. **4.Euge****ne "Bull" Connor** was the Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement. His office gave him responsibility for administrative oversight of the Birmingham Fire Department and the Birmingham Police Department, which had their own chiefs. **5.Fidel Castro** was born in August 13, 1926, is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011. **6.George Corley Wallace, Jr.**was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. After four runs for U. S. president,he earned the title of "the most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher. **7. Malcolm X** was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Born in May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. King has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism. Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley and Leona Edwards, respectively, a carpenter and a teacher, and was of African-American, Cherokee-Creekand, Scots-Irish ancestry. She was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement". After a day at work at Montgomery Fair department store, Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus at around 6 p.m., Thursday, December 1, 1955, in downtown Montgomery. She paid her fare and sat in an empty seat in the first row of back seats reserved for blacks in the "colored" section, which was near the middle of the bus and directly behind the ten seats reserved for white passengers. Initially, she had not noticed that the bus driver was the same man, James F. Blake, who had left her in the rain in 1943. As the bus traveled along its regular route, all of the white-only seats in the bus filled up. The bus reached the third stop in front of the Empire Theater, and several white passengers boarded.
 * 8. Huey Newton **was born in Monroe, Louisiana, the youngest of seven children to Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist lay preacher. His parents named him after former Governor of Louisiana Huey Long. In 1945, the family settled in Oakland, California. He was an American political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
 * 9.** **Martin Luther King, Jr**Was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, the middle child of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King.
 * 10. Rosa Parks**