black history month famous black people

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