Black History Month

Harriet Tubman
1. Born into slavery around 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland; Harriet Tubman was a spy, nurse, feminist, and social reformer. 
2. In 1844, she married John Tubman, a free African- American from Cambridge.
3. She guided three hundred to freedom in the North, because of the underground railroad.

Langston Hughes

1.) Langston Hughes was a writer, who was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902.

2.) During his senior year of high school, he was declared class poet and yearbook editor.

3.) He attended Columbia University.

James Baldwin

1.) A writer who was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York.

2.) He became known as the most eloquent literary spokesperson for civil rights fro African Americans.

3.) He returned to France in the early 1970s.

Clarence Thomas

1.) He was a US Supreme Court Justice.

2.) He was born in Point, Georgia a small coastal town outside of Savannah.

3.) When the Civil Rights act was enacted, his grandfather forced his to attend an all-white boarding school.

W.E.B DuBois

1.) He was an African American scholar.

2.) Early leader in the 20th century African American protest movement.

3.) He was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Marcus Garvey

1.) He is from the West indies.

2.) The first to forcefully articulate the concept of African nationalism.

3.) He was born on August 17, 1887.

Michael Jordan

1.) Basketball player and buisnessman.

2.) He was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York.

3.) He played for the University of North Carolina and led them to a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I championship.

Frederick Douglass

1.) An African American abolitionist.

2.) The first African American leader of national stature in US history.

3.) He was born in eastern Maryland in February 1817.

Louis Armstrong

1.) He was a jazz musician and entertainer.

2.) He was born in New Orleans, Louisianna.

3.) His father rose to become a straw boss in a turpentine factory.

Elijah McCoy 

1. He was born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada in 1843. 
2. He was a famous inventer, who invented the air-brake lubricator and the vehicle wheel tire.
3. His parents were both slaves in Kentucky before escaping on the underground railroad before the Civil War.

Sojourner Truth
1.Born into slavery in Ulster County, New York, the young woman was known as Isabella.
2. She was active in the suffrage movement and a featured speaker of woman suffrage.
3. In 1827, Truth led Dumont's farm and became a runway.

Tiger Woods
1. Born Edrick Woods on December 30, 1975 in Orlando, Floirda.

2. He is a professional golfer, who became the youngest player to win the Masters.
3. He was the first golfer since Jack Nickalous to captures the years first two major tournaments.

 Wilma Rudolph
1. On November 12, 1994, Wilma died at her home in Brentwood, Tennessee of a brain tumor.
2. Her accomplishments were extremely remarkable because she came from a chilhood of sickness and disability.
3. Wilma was the first American woman runner to win theree gold medals in the Olympic games.


Muhammad Ali
1. He began boxing at the age of 12 after his bicycle was stolen.
2. Muhammad Ali and his "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" style of fighting dominated the heavyweight boxing.
3. He was born on January 17, 1942, as Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.


Jesse Owens
1. He was apart of the annual Big Ten Track and Field Championship.
2. He was a famous track and field athlete that set national records.
3. He was born James Cleveland Owens on September 12, 1913.


Ralph Bunche
1. He was the highest American official in the United Nations.
2. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles on schorlarships and graduated in 1927.
3. He was born in 1904 in Michigan, and died in 1971.

George Washington Carver

1. He was born in Kansas Territory near Diamond Grove, Missouri during the bloddy struggle between free-soldiers and slaveholders.
2. He started his life as a slave and ended his life as a respected chemist.
3. They pronounced him to be "the least imposing celebrity the world has ever known."