7 People who changed the world
Black History Month is the time of the year which is dedicated towards appreciating iconic black people and how they’ve helped change the world and make it a better place. Here are the five that I feel are incredibly important:
1. Rosa Park
Almost all have learnt about Ms.
Rosa Parks in history class at one
point or another; she’s the woman
who began the Montgomery Bus
Boycotting. During this time in
America there was a large amount
of racism and segregation between people of colour and white people. This meant that there were separate toilets, separate eating spaces and separate places to sit on the bus. On December 1st 1955, she refused to move into the ‘coloured section’ of the bus and give up her seat on the bus for a white man. She became a candidate for the