Febuary-Black History Month

Jesse Owens
-He was a track and field athlete.
-Owens set national records by running the 100-yard dash in 9.4 seconds.
-He also set a new broad jump record at 24 feet, nine and five eighths  inches.
-He was a gold medal winner for his long jump.
-Forty years after he won his gold medals, he was invited to the White House to accept a Presidental Medal of Freedom from Gerald Ford.

Lena Horne
-She is from Brookyln, New York.
-She always had ambitions to be a proformer.
-She is a famour actress and singer.
-She became the featured singer with the Noble Sissle Society Orchestra.
-She left Sissle in 1936 to perform as a "single" in a variety of the New York clubs.

Tiger Woods
-He is a professional golfer.
-He won two golf titles.
-He was youngest player to ever win the Masters.
-At 8, he won the first of six Optimist International Junior World Titles.
-He finished in the top 10 five times out of  his first 8 Professional Golf Association/

Booker T. Washington
-He was and educator and leader.
-He is from Franklin County, Virginia.
-He longed to go to a black college in Hampton, Virginia.
-He led Tuskegee Institute which, became an important force in black education.
-In 1895 he gave his famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech.

Harriet Tubman
-Born into slavery around 1820.
-She escaped from bondage in the South.
-She was a conductor of the underground railroad.
-She helped slaves escape from slavery.
-The U.S. Postal Service issued a Harriet Tubman commemorative stamp, the first in the Black Heritage USA series.

Duke Ellington
-He was a composer, bandleader, and pianist.
-He was born in Washington DC.
-He began piano lessons at age 7.
-He is generally considered to be the most important and prolific composer in jazz.
-He was strongly religious.

Dred Scott
-He was born a slave.
-He waged one of the most important legal battles in the history of the US.
-He was sold to a surgeon.
-On May 28, 1857 he owner freed him.
-His bid for freedom remained the most momentous judicial event of the century.

Elijah McCoy
-He helped trains and all things with engines move more smoothly and safely.
-He was born in Ontario, Canada.
-He attended grammar school until he was 15.
-The only job he could get was a fireman.
-Elijah never stopped inventing.

Du Bois W.E.B.
1. He lead an early portest movement.
2. He was an African American scholar.
3.He earned his masters of art.

Frederick Douglass
1. He was an abolitionist in antebellum America.
2. He was the first African-American leader of national statue in U.S. history.
3.He was born in Maryland.
4.Him and his mother were seperated at an early age.

Benjamin Banneker
1. He was the son of two slaves.
2. He taught himself astronomy.
3. In 1980 they began making a stamp to commerate his life.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1. She was a track and field athlete.
2. She was the younger of an Olympic track and field athlete.
3. She won a silver medal in heptathol.
4. She won gold medals in 1988 and 1992.
5. She was a world-class athlete.
Maya Angelou
1. She was a writer, poet, performer, and director.
2. She was with the name Marguerite Johnson.
3. She was from St. Louis Missouri.
4.She at one point stopped speaking after getting beat up.
5. She eventually started speaking again.

Marian Anderson
1. She was an operastic and concert singer.
2. She was renowned thoughtout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice.
3. The first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.

Willie Lewis Brown Jr.
1.The mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, California.
2. He was the longest serving Speaker of the Assembly in California history.
3.He is the only African American to ever hold that post.

Mathew Gaines
1.A former slave, community leader and Republican State Senator.
2.He made valuable contributions in the establishment of free public education in Texas.
3. He was a preacher, also.