Black People of Peace (6)

Jackie Robinson was one of the most influential sports figure of his day. he was the first African American to play Major League Basketball. He was the catalyst that broke basketball’s colour barrier.

Malala Yousafzai is now 24.
On 9th October 2012, aged 15 ,she was hit in the head from a bullet by a Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan gunman who wanted to assassinate her for activism towards female education. She was transfered to the UK to recover…
In 2014, aged 17, she became the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate.
Pakistan’s Prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, says she has become the country’s most prominent citizen.
I am Malala: the girl who was stood up for Education and was shot by the Taliban

Mohammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay until 1964, was a world champion boxer. Changing his name was a religious and political act when he converted to Islam.
In 1967 he became a conscience objector and refused to do military service in Vietnam for the USA saying it was against his religious and moral beliefs. He avoided jail but was stripped and banned from boxing. ln 1970 returned to the ring to win back his title.

Rigoberta Menchu Tum is a K’iche Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist and Nobel Prize Laureate (1992). She rose in prominence in 1983. She has dedicated her life to publicizing the indigeous suffering of her people during and after the Guatemala Civil War (1960-99).
She is a UNESCO goodwill anbassador.
She founded the country’s first indigenous political party, Winaq.

Tegia Loroupe is a Kenyan long distance track and road runner ( won the New York marathon in 1994 and 1995, plus other marathons).
She is also a global spokeswoman for peace, women’s rights and education.
In 2003 created the Tegia Loroupe Peace Foundation- created to promote friendship between people and gender equality.
She organizes Peace marathons which are held in East Africa.
In 2016 organized the Refugee Team for the Rio Summer Olympics in Rio.

Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011) was a Kenyan social environmental and political activist.
In 1977 she founded the Green belt Movement which focused on the planning of trees ( combating deforestation and soil erosion), environmental conservation and women’s rights. She felt by improving the environment she was creating a system that would encourage progress and peace
In 2004 she was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2006 won the Indira Gandhi Peace prize.

Sources
People of Peace by Sandrine Mirza
Wikipedia