1913-2005 Birthplace: Tuskegee, Alabama Civil Right icon Presidential Medal Of Freedom Award Author Rosa Parks was home schooled by her mother until the age of 11. She had to leave secondary school to care for her ailing grandmother. At the encouragement of her husband, she finished her high school classes and achieved her diploma in 1933. She became active in defending The Scottsboro Boys , a group of Black men who had been falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931.

1820-22(?)-1913 Birthplace: Dorchester County, Maryland – born into slavery Conductor of the Underground Railroad Soldier Nurse Suffrage Activist Author Harriet Tubman was born to Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross. However, her birth name was Araminta Ross. At age five she was rented out as a domestic servant, at the age of 12 while trying to prevent her enslaver from beating an enslaved man who tried to escape, she was hit on the head with a two pound weight leaving her with