February Black History Month

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February Black History Month

Dr. Carter G. Woodson Dec 19. 1874 - April 1950 Parents slaves Worked in the Kentucky coal mines as a child Started high school at age twenty He graduated in two years and later went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. Disturbed to find in his studies that history books largely ignored the black American population

Black History Week In 1926, he started Negro History Week Why the second week of February ? - Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895 American abolitionist - Abraham Lincoln, 2/12/1809 - 4/15/1865 American President

- February 23, 1868: W.E. B. DuBois important civil rights leader and co- founder of the NAACP, was born. - February 3, 1870: The 15th Amendment was passed, granting blacks the right to vote. February 25, 1870: - The first black U.S. senator, Hiram R. Revels (1822-1901), took his oath of office. - February 12, 1909: The NAACP was founded by a group of concerned black and white citizens in New York City. - February 1, 1960: A group of black Greensboro, N.C., college students began a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. - February 21, 1965: Malcolm X, the militant leader who promoted Black Nationalism, was shot to death by three Black Muslims.

Secretary of State 1/20/2001 - 1/26-2005 Colin Powell April 5, 1937 - Secretary of State 1/20/2001 - 1/26-2005

(Cassius Marcellus Clay) Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay) Jan. 17, 1942 - Boxer

political leader, religious minister, orator Jesse Jackson Oct. 8, 1941 - political leader, religious minister, orator

First African American to play in Major league baseball Jackie Robinson Jan 31, 1919 - Oct 24, 1972 First African American to play in Major league baseball

George Washington Carver 1864-5 Jan. 1943 African-American scientist and educator

Rosa Parks February 4, 1913 - Civil Rights Activist

Jesse Owens 1913 - March 31, 1980 1936 Olympics - first American to win 4 gold medals in track and field

Jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis 25 May 1926-28 Sept. 1991 Jazz trumpeter and bandleader

abolitionist, civil rights activist, and reform journalist Frederick Douglass Feb. 1818-20 Feb. 1895 abolitionist, civil rights activist, and reform journalist

African-American activist, historian, and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois 23 Feb. 1868-27 Aug. 1963 African-American activist, historian, and sociologist

Legendary Underground Railroad Conductor Harriet Tubman 1812 - 1913 Legendary Underground Railroad Conductor

jazz musician and composer Duke Ellington 29 Apr. 1899-24 May 1974 jazz musician and composer

Ella Fitzgerald 25 Apr. 1917-15 June 1996 singer

Langston Hughes 1 Feb. 1902 - 22 May 1967 writer, poet

Baptist minister & civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Jan 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968 Baptist minister & civil rights leader