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Black History Month
Famous Black People
“We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes,
different dreams.” –Jimmy Carter
Bill CosbyRaven Symone
Oprah Winfrey
Rosa Parks(1913-2005)
Coretta Scott King
Jackie Robinson(1919–1972)
Michael Jordan
George Washington Carver (1860–1943)
Lonnie G. Johnson (1949–) Dr. Daniel Hale
Williams (1859-1931)
Sidney Poitier
Harriet Tubman(1820-1913)
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Sojourner Truth
(1797–1883)
Mary Ann Shadd (1823–1893)
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong(1900–1971)
Robert Johnson(1911–1938)
Jesse Owens(1913-2005)
Muhammad Ali(1942- )
Wilma Rudolph
(1940-1994)
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
Ralph Bunche (1904-1971)
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-
1985)
Rev. Jesse Jackson(1941-)
Thurgood Marshall(1908 – 1993)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Marian Anderson (1897-1993)
Matthew Henson(1866-1955)
Guion “Guy” Bluford (1942-)
Booker T. Washington(1856-1915)
Shirely Chisholm(1924-2005)
Langston HughesMaya Angelou
Disney’s First Black Princess
Princess Tiana, the heroine of The Princess and The Frog, will be voiced by Anika Noni Rose Photo: DISNEY/AP
President Barack Obama & Family
Websites• http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/index
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• http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/
• http://www.history.com/content/blackhistory • http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory