Resume of Susan B. Anthony
Background Information:
 Name: Susan Brownell Anthony
 Born: February 15, 1820 in Massachusetts
 Education: home schooled because the teacher at her school would not
teach her long division because she was a girl
 Occupations: teacher, headmistress, public speaker
 Husband: none
 Strength/Interests: equality, education, temperance
Political Experience
 Secretary of the Daughters of Temperance
 Publisher of The Revolution, a women's rights weekly journal
 Co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
Interesting Facts
 Learned to read and write by the age of 3
 Frederick Douglas often visited her home when she was a child
 Active in temperance and anti-slavery movement
 Good friends with Elizabeth Cady Stanton even though they didn’t always
agree with each other
 Arrested for voting in New York, found guilty and charged $100. She
never paid the fine.
 In 1905 meets with President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C.,
about submitting a suffrage amendment to Congress.
 14 years after her death the 19th Amendment is passed, also known as
the Susan B. Anthony Amendment
Death: March 13, 1906
Resume of César Chavez
Background Information:
 Name: César Chavez
 Born: March 31, 1927 near Yuma, Arizona
 Education: Stopped after 8th grade to help his family
 Occupations: farmer, navy, organizer
 Wife: Helen Fabela
 Strength/Interests: equality, education, leadership, dedication
Political Experience
 Founded the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm
Workers (UFW)
Interesting Facts
 He and his brother attended 37 different schools
 Worked with his family as a migrant farmer
 Believed in non-violence, looked to St. Francis and Gandhi for inspiration
 Used marches, boycotts, and hunger strikes to bring attention to the bad
working conditions of farm workers
 Brought attention to the dangers that pesticides could have on workers
 Eventually gained better working conditions and wages for farm laborers
Death: April 23, 1993
Resume of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Background Information:
 Name: Michael Luther King, Jr. (changed his name to Martin later)
 Born: January 15, 1929
 Education: Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, Boston
College
 Occupations: minister, civil rights activist
 Wife: Coretta Scott
 Strength/Interests: equality, education, leadership, dedication,
tolerance
Political Experience
 President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (organization
started to create leaders for the civil rights movement)
 Conferred with President John F Kennedy and helped to campaign for
President Lyndon B Johnson
 Youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
Interesting Facts
 From 1957 to 1968 he traveled over 6 million miles and spoke over
2,500 times.
 Worked for equality for all people, but especially for African Americans
 Used non-violent protests, boycotts and marches to gain equality for
people
 He was arrested 20 times during his work in the civil rights movement
 He gave all his prize money from the Nobel Peace Prize ($ 54,123) to the
civil rights movement
 Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963
 Directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to
whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream"
Death: April 4, 1968 - assassinated
Resume of Rosa Parks
Background Information:
 Name: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
 Born: February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama
 Education: high school
 Occupations: civil rights activist, seamstress, secretary, receptionist
 Husband: Raymond Parks
 Strength/Interests: equality, worker’s rights, dedication, tolerance
Political Experience
 Secretary and later youth leader of the local NAACP branch
 Started the Montgomery Bus Boycott
 She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Interesting Facts
 On December 1, 1955, she refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's
order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger
 Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold
Medal
 The first woman and second non-U.S. government official granted the
posthumous honor of lying in honor at the Capitol Rotunda
 Wrote an autobiography
 Known as "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom
movement"
Death: October 24, 2005