People who made a difference

PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE

ROSA PARKS

Rosa Louise Parks was an American activist. An activist of the civil rights movement. One day, in December 1955, she thought " no more", and refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a bus. " I felt I had a right to stay where I was, " she said. The bus driver called the police and they arrested her, and Martin Luther King Jr.organised a boycott of the buses in Montegomery.

MALALA YOUSAFZAI

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani student and activist. She is the youngest candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is known for her activism in the fight for civil rights and for the right to study for women in the city of Mingora, where a Taliban edict banned the right. At the age of thirteen she became famous for her blog, in which she documented the Pakistani Taliban regime, which was against women's rights.

On 9 October 2012, she was seriously injured in the head and neck by armed men who boarded the school bus on which she was returning home from school. she survived the attack after the surgical removal of the bullets. On 10 October 2013 she was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought;

Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King was born in the Deep South of the United States, where racism is extremely deep-rooted. Little Martin soon realizes that the color of his skin represents an obstacle. Having become aware of this discrimination, he dedicated himself completely to study, graduating in philosophy and becoming a pastor himself, before starting his unstoppable and peaceful battle against racial segregation. King admired the figure of Mahatma Gandhi and his doctrine of nonviolence. His most famous phrase is I HAVE A DREAM.

ANNA FRANK

Annelies Marie Frank, known to all as Anne, was born on 12 June 1929 into a Jewish family. For the first four years of his life she lived in a quiet neighborhood on the outskirts of the city but in 1933 - with Hitler's rise to power - his father, Otto Frank, decided to leave Germany and moved with his family to Amsterdam. on May 10, 1940, the Nazi army invaded Holland and the Frank family, like all Jews, found themselves subject to racial laws. He began to organize a hidden refuge with the help of some of his collaborators. On 12 June 1942, in the last month of "freedom", Anna received for her thirteenth birthday the famous red and white squared notebook in which she would write her diary.

RITA LEVI MONTALCINI

Rita Levi Montalcini was the only Italian woman to have won a scientific Nobel Prize. After convincing her father to let her study, she graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Turin in 1936. From her first year of university she worked as a specialist in internal medicine at the Giuseppe Levi Institute. In 1938, the racial laws arrived. She, of Jewish origin, is forced to emigrate to Belgium. She continued to do research, setting up a small home laboratory. In 1954, together with his collaborator Stanley Cohen, he discovered Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), a protein involved in the development of the nervous system. For this discovery Rita Levi Montalcini and Stanley Cohen were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1986.

NELSON MANDELA

Nelson Mandela was the first black president of the Republic of South Africa. His political activity was significant: he fought for the rights of blacks in South Africa all his life, even spending a total of 27 years in prison. Mandela was a decisive figure in the early 1990s in the end of Apartheid, the South African system of racial segregation. For his efforts he received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

MADRE TERESA DI CALCUTTA

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, often known simply as Mother Teresa, was a recognized Indian Albanian nun of Catholic faith, founder of the religious congregation of the Missionaries of Charity. Her tireless work among the victims of poverty in Calcutta made her one of the most famous people in the world and earned her numerous awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was proclaimed blessed by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003 and sainted by Pope Francis on 4 September 2016.

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