Angela Davis is an American political activist and abolitionist who has been highly involved in the civil rights movement in the United States and who's influence continues to effect activists today. She also joined the Black Panthers and was a professor at UCLA.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/angela-davis

Patrisse Cullors is the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter organization. She is from Los Angeles, CA, and has been an influential leader of many Los Angeles based organizations, including Dignity and Power Now, Justice LA, and Reform LA Jails. She is an artist, activist, author, and also the Faculty Director of Arizona's Prescott College.

https://patrissecullors.com/about/

Marsha P. Johnson was a trans activist, drag queen, and she played a major role in fighting for LGBTQ+ rights, helping start the Stonewall Riots of 1969. She also co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), which aimed to help homeless transgender youth.

https://ucnj.org/mpj/about-marsha-p-johnson/

https://marshap.org/about-mpji/

Ida B. Wells was a journalist and activist who exposed horrific lynchings that occurred in the 1890s. She was a founder of the National Association of Colored Women's Club and she also co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett#:~:text=NWHM%20Fellow%20%7C%202017-,Ida%20B.,and%20early%2020th%20centuries.&text=Ida%20Bell%20Wells%20was%20born,slavery%20during%20the%20Civil%20War.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/against-all-odds-65322127/

Biddy Mason was a prominent land owner and also the founder of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles in 1872. Mason was born into slavery, won her freedom, and also worked as a midwife and nurse.

https://www.nps.gov/people/biddymason.htm

Bayard Rustin was an openly gay Civil Rights activist who helped to organize the March on Washington in 1963. He worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. but do to widespread homophobia at the time he is not as well known.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/who-designed-the-march-on-washington/

Sojourner Truth sits in a rocking chair as she shares a story to some children. A former slave, Truth was an abolitionist, a women's right activist, and an author, delivering the famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech in 1851. Her devout advocation for civil rights has paved the path for modern-day activism.

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truth#:~:text=A%20former%20slave%2C%20Sojourner%20Truth,President%20Abraham%20Lincoln%20in%201864.

https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches

Mae C. Jemison stands in her space suit looking up at the stars and imagining the heights we might achieve. In 1992, Jemison went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour and became the first African-American woman to go to space. She is also a trained medical doctor, served as a Medical Officer in the Peace Corps and currently runs BioSentient Corp, a medical technology company.

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mae-jemison

Nina Simone sings to the crowd accompanied by a man playing the Djembe (traditional African instrument) and someone playing a banjo, which was invented by Black people and symbolizes African contributions to American music. Simone was a singer and activist whose songs encapsulated the love and protest of Black empowerment.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nina-Simone

Nelson Mandela waves to people after being elected; he was the first Black President of his country, South Africa. Mandela was a South African politician and activist. He dedicated his life towards fighting for equality, ultimately toppling South Africa's system of apartheid.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/nelson-mandela-fought-apartheid-work-not-complete

John Lewis in his iconic brown trench coat and backpack walks hand and hand with Ruby Bridges.

Lewis was a civil rights leader, best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He was also one the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington.

https://www.aclu.org/congressman-john-lewis

Ruby Bridges is an American activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was, at age six, the youngest of a group of African-American students to integrate schools in the American South.

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ruby-bridges

Fahren James (who holds the SAY HER NAME sign) and London Lang (who holds the ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER sign) protest in the foreground representing local activist groups South Pasadena Youth for Police Reform and BLM South Pasadena, which they founded, respectively. Both activists were at the heart of local BLM protests and calls for anti-racist change in our community, organizing at the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Mission Street from June to October 2020.

https://tigernewspaper.com/local-blm-group-ends-almost-150-days-of-protesting/

Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X stand arm in arm with Black power fists.

Harriet Tubman was one of the most prominent American abolitionists and political activists, renowned for escaping and helping many others escape slavery; she made 13 rescue missions and freed around 70 people.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harriet-Tubman

Malcolm X, was a famous human rights activists and one of the most prominent leaders during the 1960's civil rights movement.

https://www.malcolmx.com/

Langston Hughes sits at a typewriter writing literature, and leaning over his shoulder to consider the unfinished piece is James Baldwin.

Hughes was a writer who was in important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He was able to convey the African American experience into his writing pieces.

https://poets.org/poet/langston-hughes

Baldwin was a writer and voice for the Civil rights movements, some of his most notable works being 'The Fire Next Time,' 'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' and 'Notes of a Native Son.'

https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/introduction-james-baldwin