Welcome to the 2016 Civil Rights Hall of Fame Induction Night!

Tonight we are
honoring two individuals who have worked since the 1950s to better our country.
Our first inductee is Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
Sen. Sanders started his civil rights activism in high school while running for class
president at James Madison High School in New York City. He started a campaign to
raise money for scholarships for Korean War orphans, and even though he didnt win
the presidential race of his class, the president did decide to endorse his campaign
and scholarships were created. While in college at University of Chicago, Sen.
Sanders was active in two groups called the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1962, he was arrested
for protesting segregation. He also took part in the March on Washington. Sen.
Sanders was also an activist for women and childrens rights. Bernie Sanderss had
an impact on society because he took his beliefs from the civil rights and continued
to teach people during his political campaigns.
Our final inductee of the night is Lorraine Hansberry. Lorraine had been
exposed to the world of civil rights since early childhood, as her father worked with
the NAACP. In college, Hansberry joined the Young Progressives of America (YPA),
which was committed to ending the Cold War, working for world peace and racial
equality. She wrote many articles and essays on civil rights. She wrote for Freedom
newspaper, which was an African American newspaper based in Harlem. Lorraine
also participated in a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and
questioned the administrations racial equality. Lorraine Hansberrys impact on the
Civil Rights is still around today with her play A Raisin in The Sun.
Please join me in welcoming our two guests into the Civil Rights Hall of Fame.

Found on Google Bernie Sanders civil rights activist

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/20-examples-bernie-sanders-powerful-recordcivil-and-human-rights-1950s
Found on Google Lorraine Hansberry civil rights
http://www.workers.org/articles/2015/02/28/lorraine-hansberry-political-activistartist/