Black History Month

Langston Hughes
-Langston Hughes was a writer and a poet.
-He wrote The Weary Blues in 1926.
-He received numerous fellowships,awards and honorary degrees.
-He wrote The Big Sea and it was an autobiography in 1940.
-He wrote Simple Speaks His Mind in 1950
W.E.B. DuBois
-He has 2 children
-He received many degrees
-He died on the eve of the civil rights march
-In 1905, he became a founder and general secretary of the Niagara movement
-He was an early leader in the 20th century
Clarence Thomas
-For the first few years after his appointment, Thomas tended to keep a low public profile
-He thought about dropping out of college but he didn't.
-He was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice
-In 1964 he was sent to a white school
-He was born in June 23, 1948.
Muhammad Ali
-He had Parkinson's syndrome
-He boxed for a decade and a half.
-He won the gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Olympic Games
-He won 3 World heavyweight boxing championships
-He was raised in a middle-class neighborhood and was the eldest of two sons born to Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.
Louis Armstrong
- He was a trumpet player
- He was born 1901
- He claimed to being born on July 4th 1900
- He was raised in extreme deprivation.
- He died in 1971
Wilma Rudolph
-She was an olympic medalist runner.
-She was the 1st American woman to win three gold medals in track
-She had a physical Disability
Lena Horne
-She was a singer
-She was a actress
-She got a job at 16
-She married Louis Jones
-She was born in June 30, 1917
Whoopi Goldberg
-She was an actress
-She was also a comedienne
-She starred in The Spook Show
-She won an award.
-She was also in the Color Purple
George Washington Carver
-He invented peanut butter
-He was born on 1864
-He started as a slave
-He knew Henry A. Wallace for 47 years.
-He won a nobel prize winner
Mae Jemison
-She was an astronaut
-She was born in 1956 in Alabama
-She was the youngest of her family
-She went on the Endeavour mission with 6 other people
-First african american women in space