Black History Month
Pick five people from the bulleted list below then research their life using these resources:
1. Ducksters Websitewww.ducksters.com/biography/africanamericans.php
2. Get Epic - "Black History Month" Collection
1. Ducksters Websitewww.ducksters.com/biography/africanamericans.php
2. Get Epic - "Black History Month" Collection
- Thurgood Marshall, supreme court justice
- Shirley Chisholm, US congresswoman
- Barack Obama, US president
- Kamala Harris, US vice president
- George Washington Carver, scientist
- Mary Jackson, mathematician and aerospace engineer
- Katherine Johnson, mathematician
- Dorothy Vaughan, mathematician for NASA
- Mae Jemison, astronaut
- Marshall "Major" Taylor, athlete
- Simone Biles, athlete
- Kobe Bryant, athlete
- Jackie Robinson, athlete
- Patrick Mahomes, athlete
- Jesse Owens, athlete
- Serena Williams, athlete
- Michael Jordan, athlete
- Muhammad Ali, athlete
- Ruby Bridges, civil rights activist
- Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
- Martin Luther King, Jr, civil rights activist
- Booker T. Washington, civil rights activist
- John Lewis, civil rights activist
- Sarah Breedlove, civil rights activist
- Harriet Tubman, escaped slave, helped underground railroad
- Sojourner Truth, escaped slave, women's rights activist
- Frederick Douglass, former slave, advised US presidents
- Amanda Gorman, poet
- Maya Angelou, poet and author
- Langston Hughes, poet and author
- Rita Dove, author
- Faith Ringgold, author
- Oprah Winfrey, actress and talk show host
- Jacob Lawrence, painter
- Misty Copeland, dancer
- Prince, musician
- Ray Charles, musician
- Louis Armstrong, musician
- Duke Ellington, musician
- Michael Jackson, musician