WILMA RUDOLF
Wilma Rudolph (1940 - 1994)
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter, who became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field.
In 1960, Rudolph won three gold medals in the 100 and 200 meter dash and the 4 x 100 meter relay at the Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.
Rudolph became the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games.
Wilma Rudolph (1940 - 1994)
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter, who became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field.
In 1960, Rudolph won three gold medals in the 100 and 200 meter dash and the 4 x 100 meter relay at the Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.
Rudolph became the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games.
JOHN LEWIS
John Robert Lewis was an American statesman and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia from 1987 until his death in 2020.
Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. He fulfilled many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States.
In 1965, Lewis led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
John Lewis (1940 - 2020)
John Robert Lewis was an American statesman and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia from 1987 until his death in 2020.
Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. He fulfilled many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States.
In 1965, Lewis led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
CATO MEAD
Cato Mead (1761-1846) is the only known Black Patriot. Mead fought in the American Revolutionary War and was the only Black Patriot known to be buried west of the Mississippi River. Cato Mead joined the 4th Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Army in Norwich, Connecticut in 1776 or 1777 at sixteen years old.
He served at Valley Forge from December 1777 through June 1778, where he got smallpox and spent two months in a Pennsylvania hospital. Early military records show Mead received solder's pay of $10.04 for service his in the Continental Army in July 1783.
Cato Mead (1761-1846)
Cato Mead (1761-1846) is the only known Black Patriot. Mead fought in the American Revolutionary War and was the only Black Patriot known to be buried west of the Mississippi River. Cato Mead joined the 4th Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Army in Norwich, Connecticut in 1776 or 1777 at sixteen years old.
He served at Valley Forge from December 1777 through June 1778, where he got smallpox and spent two months in a Pennsylvania hospital. Early military records show Mead received solder's pay of $10.04 for service his in the Continental Army in July 1783.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
He was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.
Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
He was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.