1. February Black History Month

2. 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

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

4. - 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 ( ), 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.

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

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

7. political leader, religious minister, orator
Jesse Jackson
Oct. 8,
political leader, religious minister, orator

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

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

10. Rosa Parks
February 4,
Civil Rights Activist

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

12. Jazz trumpeter and bandleader
Miles Davis
25 May Sept. 1991
Jazz trumpeter and bandleader

13. abolitionist, civil rights activist, and reform journalist
Frederick Douglass
Feb Feb. 1895
abolitionist, civil rights activist, and reform journalist

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

15. Legendary Underground Railroad Conductor
Harriet Tubman
Legendary Underground Railroad Conductor

16. jazz musician and composer
Duke Ellington
29 Apr May 1974
jazz musician and composer

17. Ella Fitzgerald
25 Apr June 1996
singer

18. Langston Hughes
1 Feb May 1967
writer, poet

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