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Amariyanna "Mari" Copeny (born July 6, 2007), also known as Little Miss Flint, is an African-American youth activist from Flint, Michigan. She is best known for raising awareness about the Flint water crisis and for fundraising to support underprivileged children in her community and across the country.
Mathew Tyler Oakley [23] was born on March 22, 1989, in Jackson, Michigan.He has twelve siblings. When he was an infant, his parents divorced. [24] When he was in the sixth grade, Oakley moved to Okemos, and became involved in choir and drama.
Keshia Thomas (born c. 1978) is an African-American woman and human rights activist known for a 1996 event at which she was photographed protecting a man believed to have been a Ku Klux Klan supporter.
Every single day, Black Michiganders navigate a double consciousness W.E.B. Dubois, the American sociologist and civil rights activist, described as “this sense of always looking at oneself ...
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.
Harriet Tubman is one of the most famous Black historical figures out there. She was born into slavery in Maryland in the early 19th century. ... W.E.B. Du Bois was a sociologist and activist who ...
Born in Lansing, Michigan in 1950, Dr. Alexa Irene Canady broke both gender and color barriers when she became the first African American woman neurosurgeon in the United States in 1981.
Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist in Detroit, Michigan.She was known for going to Alabama in March 1965 to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.