The key figures of the black power movement and their achievements are;
· Martin Luther King Jr. is a civil rights leader and a Baptist U.S. minister, he is against discrimination of blacks, so he organise resistance but it was a peaceful mass demonstrations. He won the noble peace price, at Lincoln Memorial he gave the famous speech “I Have a Dream.
· Malcolm X renamed himself X to signify the loss of his African heritage; converted to Nation of Islam in jail in the 50s, became Black Muslims' most dynamic street recruiter and orator; a lot of black power movement his beliefs were the basis that’s why they built separationist and nationalist impulses to achieve nationalist impulses to achieve true independence and equality, But eventually rejected the Anti-White message the Nation spread. Originally Malcolm Little.
· Rosa Parks is a civil rights leader in United States who rejected to surrenderher seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so activate the national civil rights movement (born in 1913).
· Linda Brown is African American girl who was recruted by the NAACP to go the white school. The "Brown" in the brown vs. BOE.