Sports Activists and the Fight for Equality

One of the best basketball players of all time, played for LA Lakers till 1991; his real name was Earvin

Famous track & field athlete who won gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, angering Hitler.

Megan Rapinoe is famous for her

1st black athlete to play Major League Baseball. He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Led the US civil rights movement; Assassinated in 1968. Advocated non-violent protests.

A basketball player named Lew Alcindor. He won 3 titles with UCLA and 6 MVP awards with the Lakers.

Born Cassius Clay, he was an Olympic & World Champion Boxer with very strong political beliefs.

Lebron James supports the "I promise school" in Akron, Ohio.

One of the best basketball players ever; pt guard for Chicago Bulls; won 6 NBA championships

Tony Parker never played with the San Antonio Spurs

The two African American athletes who raised their gloved fists in Mexico in 1968

Who was the first woman who ran the whole Boston Marathon?

The Black Power movement and Black Lives Matter are both movements to advocate equality

18-year-old who was murdered in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014

Champion Olympic & professional welterweight boxer. He retired from the sport in 1997.

Marcus Rashford, the now famous British football player has led a campaign

Famous black golfer who has 80 PGA wins, 4 Masters wins & many other championship victories

Activist and black nationalist leader; spokesman for Nation of Islam (50s & 60s). Assassinated.

First black male tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon; he died of AIDS.