Activist / Abolitionist.

Walter H. Lively

*Walter Hall Lively was born on this date in 1942. He was an African-American Civil Rights Activist & Black Liberationist.

Nettie L. Napier

*Nettie Langston Napier was born on this date 1861. She was an African-American woman’s activist and administrator.

Elijah H. Gammon

*The birth of Elijah H. Gammon in 1819 is celebrated on this date. He was an American minister, businessman and activist.

*The birth of Maria W. Stewart in 1803 is celebrated on this date. She was a black abolitionist, feminist, author and educator.

Maria W. Stewart was born in Hartford, Connecticut, as Maria Miller. Her parents' first names and occupations are not known. Stewart was orphaned by age five and became an indentured servant, serving a clergyman until she was fifteen. She attended Connecticut Sabbath schools and read alot in the clergyman's library, teaching herself how to read and comprehend. When she was fifteen, she began supporting herself by working as a servant.

Fred Shuttlesworth

*Fred Shuttlesworth was born on this date in1922. He was an African American civil rights activist and minister.

Born Freddie Lee Robinson in Mount Meigs, Alabama, Shuttlesworth became pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1953 and was Membership Chairman of the Alabama state chapter of the NAACP in 1956, when the State of Alabama formally outlawed it from operating within the state. In 1956 Shuttlesworth and Ed Gardner established the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) to take up the work formerly done by the NAACP.