Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was born in Tuskegee Alabama. She was an American activist in the civil rights movement who became the face of the bus boycott in Montgomery.
Rosa Parks received national recognition, including the NAACP’s 1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal. She became the first woman to “Lie In Honor” in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on October 30th, 2005. The United States Congress recognized her as “The First Lady Of Civil Rights” and “The Mother Of The Freedom Movement” and there’s a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol’s National Statuary Hall to commemorate her legacy.
Approximately 9 months prior to Rosa Parks, Jeanetta Colvin was the first woman to be arrested for sitting in the front section of the bus followed by Aurelia S. Browder a month later. Susie McDonald and Mary Louise Smith were the other 2 of five plaintiffs in the court case of Browder v. Gayle.
Sydney Poitier: (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director and diplomat born in Miami, Florida. When Sydney Poitier moved to New York he couldn’t read and was somewhat shamed by a man who basically told him he’ll never be anything more than a dishwasher. It was obvious to him that he needed to learn how to read and with the help of friends and an acute awareness of his surroundings he educated himself and made more than something out of nothing. 
Eleanor Collins aka “The First Lady of Canadian Jazz” was born Elnora Ruth Proctor on November 21, 1919, in Edmonton, Alberta. Her parents were part of the migration of Black settlers from Oklahoma who responded to the Canadian government’s promotion to settle in the prairies in 1910.