2. Martin Luther King Jr.
Luther King was the most famous of the
activists who fought for racial equality
pro-US. Pastor of the Baptist Church,
Martin spoke and spoke throughout the
American territory always preaching
equality and peaceful activism. He
received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
His murder occurred moments before a
march in a hotel in Memphis on April 4,
1968.
3.
4. Zumbi dos Palmares
Zumbi is an icon of black resistance to
slavery in Brazil. In mid-1670, he went
on to lead the Palmares, black meeting
resistant to forced labor. Known as
Zumbi for leading the quilombo that
carried the same name, Zumbi was
killed in 1696 and had his head exposed
in the state of Pernambuco.
5.
6. Barack Obama
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in
2009, Barack Obama was the first black
elected to the presidency of the United
Republic. Before that, Obama won a
singular career, and in the meantime the
only black senator representing the
legislature.
7.
8. Ray Charles
Ray Charles is one of the most
successful black singers. Considered by
Rolling Stone magazine as the 2nd
greatest singer of all time, Ray, who was
also blind and played the piano, always
refused to sing in establishments only
for whites.
9.
10. Nelson Mandela
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993,
Nelson Mandela was the Most Powerful
symbol of the fight against apartheid, the
segregationist regime in South Africa.
Known as Father of the Fatherland in his
country, Mandela was president of South
Africa for 5 years, from 1994 to 1999. to
achieve This position, symbol of
Democratic Equality, Nelson Mandela
spent 3 Decades nd prison for "practicing
terrorism against the apartheid regime."