1. Ruby Bridges First Black Student to Enter a Desegregated School http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=rubybridges http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/race_relations/jan-june97/bridges_2-18.html http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=6344255&site=srck5-live http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=4161450&site=srck5-live

2. Rosa Parks Activist who began the Montgomery Bus Boycott & sparked the Civil Rights Movement http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=rosaParks http://achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=15317138&site=srck5-live http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=6047324&site=srck5-live http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=15317138&site=srck5-live http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=rosaParks http://achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=15317138&site=srck5-live http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=6047324&site=srck5-live http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=15317138&site=srck5-live

3. Oseola McCarty Donated her Life Savings for College Scholarships http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=oseola Time For Kids http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/wr/article/0,28391,93740,00.html http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=imh&AN=imh515681&site=srck5-live

4. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights activist http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=ml_king2 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=17885336&site=srck5-live http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=12907598&site=srck5-live

5. Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela led peaceful movement to stop Apartheid (segregated blacks & whites) in South Africa. http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=nelsonMandela http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/hh/goplaces/article/0,28376,590859,00.html http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=19705753&site=srck5-live

6. Thurgood Marshall http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=39020594&site=srck5-live http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=9505267635&site=srck5-live http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=6219184&site=srck5-live