Tribute to Black History Month Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (© AP/WWP) AMERICA’S STORY IN WORDS AND PICTURES / BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS.

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Tribute to Black History Month Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (© AP/WWP) AMERICA’S STORY IN WORDS AND PICTURES / BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS

Tribute to Black History Month Harriet Tubman Leader of the Underground Railroad ( ) Born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, Harriet Tubman was an extraordinary African-American woman who courageously freed herself from slavery by running away to safe haven in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1850, when the Fugitive Slave Act made it illegal to help a runaway slave, Tubman joined the "Underground Railroad," the network of people who helped slaves escape to freedom. (Gift of Frederik Meijer © Public Museum of Grand Rapids)

Tribute to Black History Month George Washington Carver (c ) He was born into slavery in Newton County, Marion Township, near Diamond Grove, now known as Diamond, Missouri. Carver was an African-American botanist at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He taught former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency. He also experimented with peanuts and other plants, and is widely credited for inventing hundreds of uses for vegetation. (© AP/WWP)

Tribute to Black History Month Matthew Alexander Henson ( ) Matthew Henson was an African- American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary in their famous 1909 expedition to reach the Geographic North Pole. Peary praised Henson as the best man for the job because of Henson’s expertise with sleds and dogs and fluency in the Inuit language. Henson is believed to be the first man to actually reach the pole, some 45 minutes ahead of Peary. On November 28, 2000, the National Geographic Society awarded its most prestigious medal, the Hubbard Medal, to Matthew A. Henson. (© AP/WWP)

Tribute to Black History Month (Courtesy of State Archives of Florida) Mary McLeod Bethune ( ) Born to former slaves in South Carolina, Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator, organizer, and champion of civil rights. In 1904 she founded a girls school that later became the first fully accredited black college in the state of Florida. (Courtesy of State Archives of Florida) Bethune statue in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Janine Perry)

Tribute to Black History Month Dr. Charles Richard Drew ( ) Charles Drew was an African-American physician and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge in founding large-scale blood banks early in World War II. He protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood from donors of different races since it lacked scientific foundation. In 1943, Drew's distinction in his profession was recognized when he became the first African-American surgeon to serve as an examiner on the American Board of Surgery. (© AP/WWP)

Tribute to Black History Month Thurgood Marshall U.S. Supreme Court Justice ( ) Thoroughgood (actual birth name) Marshall, the grandson of a slave, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, In second grade, young Marshall shortened his name to Thurgood. He graduated from Baltimore's segregated Colored High School and then Lincoln University, "the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for youth of African descent.“ Marshall later became the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Thurgood Marshall and his wife Cecilia. (Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

Tribute to Black History Month Rosa Parks Civil Rights Leader ( ) In 1955, Rosa Parks, a seamstress on her way home from work, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, to a white man – an action required by law at the time. Her arrest sparked a year- long boycott of the city bus system by her fellow African Americans. A year later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws requiring segregation on public transportation were illegal. (© AP/WWP)

Tribute to Black History Month Jackie Robinson ( ) Born in Georgia to a family of sharecroppers, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball, integrating professional sports in the United States. His achievement was recognized by the retirement of his uniform number 42, by major league baseball teams. The number will never again be assigned to another player. In 1962, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. (© AP/WWP)

Tribute to Black History Month Martin Luther King Jr. ( ) King was the dominant force in the American civil rights movement ( ). He was the nonviolent leader behind the Montgomery bus boycott, and always will be revered for his "I Have a Dream“ speech at the March on Washington in He remains the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. “… we will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" Click on the icon to hear an excerpt from Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. (© AP/WWP)

Tribute to Black History Month Toni Morrison (1931- ) Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Ohio, and has had an illustrious career as a writer, editor, and teacher. She has won numerous awards for her writing, among them the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel Beloved, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in Her novels give voice to richly expressive depictions of black America, and she has actively used her influence to encourage the publication of other black writers. (© AP/WWP)

Tribute to Black History Month Oprah Winfrey (1954- ) Raised on a Mississippi farm with no indoor plumbing, Oprah Winfrey has become arguably the most influential person on American television and one of the richest women in the world. At 19, she was Nashville, Tennessee's first female and first black television news anchor. In 2006, she founded the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls - South Africa. The school is designed to offer academically talented girls an opportunity to develop their full intellectual, social, and leadership potential. (© AP/WWP)