A black history month special from the Ebony Legends Collection

Ebony, Feb, 2005

THEY ARE LEGENDS not only because of the history they made but also because they are in us and of us and because they were us on different mountaintops of time. The men and women on the following pages constitute a representative selection of the African-American grants in the EBONY magazine collection of legends and are printed here because they embody the history we celebrate this month.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS "Father of the Protest Movement" 1817?-1895

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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Freedom Movement Leader 1929-1968

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CARTER G. WOODSON

"Father of Black History" 1875-1950

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HARRIET TUBMAN

Underground Railroad Leader and Union Army Spy and Scout 1821?-1913

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SOJOURNER TRUTH

Abolitionist, Women's Movement Leader 1797?-1883

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W.E.B. DU BOIS

Activist, Scholar, Pan-Africanist and Co-founder of NAACP 1868-1963

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MALCOLM X

Nationalist and Pan-Africanist 1925-1965

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ROSA PARKS

Freedom Movement Leader 1913 (February 4)--

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THURGOOD MARSHALL

NAACP Attorney and Supreme Court Justice 1908-1993

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MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE

Educator and Government Official 1875-1955

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