Cameron Hudson

1. Madam Cj walker: was the first black millionaires and she invented the worlds
first hair straightening formula and or the hot comb Only one is factual sort of but
the amazing story is how Madam Walker used these accomplishment to help other
people as a job creator and philanthropist might be jarring and surprisingly
empowering even to the skeptics I know it was for me in revisiting her life for this
column.
2. Harriet Tubman: led over 200 slaves to freedom as a conductor on the
Underground Railroad. Contemporaries called her Moses and "General Tubman" in
praise of her bravery and leadership
she was in the Underground Railroad.
3. Fredrick Douglass: born a slave, Douglass escaped at age 20 and went on to
become a world-renowned anti-slavery activist. His three autobiographies are
considered important works of the slave narrative tradition as well as classics of
American autobiography. Douglass work as a reformer ranged from his abolitionist
activities in the early 1800s to his attacks on Jim Crow and lynching in the late
1800s. For 16 years he edited an influential black newspaper and achieved
international fame as an inspiring and persuasive speaker and writer.
4. Isaac Myers: labor leader and mason were born in Baltimore on January 13,
1835 He was the son of free parents but grew up in a slave state. Myers received
his early education from a private day school of a local clergyman Rev, John Fortier
since the state of Maryland provided no public education for African American
children at the time. At 16 years he became an apprentice to James Jackson a
prominent black Baltimore ship caulker Four years later Myers was supervising the
caulking of clipper ships operating out of Baltimore.
5. Thurgood Marshall: Were a U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil rights advocate.
Marshall earned an important place in American history on the basis of two
accomplishments first as legal counsel for the National Association for the
Advancement also Mr. Thurgood Marshall was the first black judge to be in the court
house that was his goal to accomplishment in life .