Madam C.J. Walker was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and hair care pioneer. She developed and sold cosmetics and hair care products for Black women. She became America’s first self-made female millionaire.

Medgar Evers was a WWII veteran and civil rights activist who worked as an NAACP field secretary in Mississippi before he was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith.

On Sunday, March 7th, 1965, John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., and some 600 protestors marched toward Montgomery before being violently disbanded by police.

The Second Middle Passage was the exchange of slaves from the upper south to the lower south as cotton overshadowed tobacco production. Many of the slaves sold during this period would be separated from their families.

In March of 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on the Dred Scott case of slavery status within free-states, citing African American exclusion from the Constitution and its unalienable rights.

Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 and repeatedly sold until housewife Sophia Auld taught him the alphabet which led to his learning to read and write. After escaping to freedom, Douglass was an activist for the abolitionist movement and more.

The Middle Passage was a period from the 16th century until 1865, when 12.5 million Africans were forced into unbearable living conditions aboard slave ships destined for the Caribbean and the Americas.