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Black History Month is very important to anybody who wishes to learn about it as well as to learn of how far a person can do great things if one can put their mind to it.
Here are some facts….
Thurgood Marshall
- Lived from 1908 – 1993.
- Civil Rights Activist, and Judge Supreme Court Justice.
- First African – American Justice of the Supreme Court
George Washington Carver
- Lived from 1864 – 1943.
- Scientist, and Inventor.
- Discovered hundreds of new products that were made using peanuts.
Mary McLeod Bethune
- Lived from 1875 – 1955.
- Civil Rights Activist, and Educator.
- Founded the National Council of Negro Women, and the Bethune Cookman College.
Benjamin Banneker
- Lived from 1731 – 1806.
- Scientist, and Astronomer.
- Accurately predicted a solar eclipse in 1789, and published almanacs each year from 1792 – 1797.
Bessie Coleman
- Lived from 1892 – 1926.
- Pilot.
- First African American woman to earn a pilot’s license, and to stage a public flight in America.
Ruby Bridges
- Born in 1954.
- Civil Rights Activist.
- First African American child to attend an all white public elementary school in the American south.
Rosa Parks
- Lived from 1913 – 2005.
- Civil Rights Activist.
- Refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, and spurring the Montgomery boycott.
Martin Lurther King Jr.
- Lived from 1929 – 1968.
- Civil Rights Activist, and Minister.
- Led the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. from the mid 1950’s until he was assassinated.
Sarah Breedlove Walker
- Lived from 1867 – 1919.
- Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Activist, and Philanthropist.
- First female self-made millionare in America.
Sojourner Truth
- Lived from 1797 – 1883.
- Women’s Rights Activist, and Civil Rights Activist.
- Leader of the abolition movement, and an early advocate of women’s rights.
Henry “Box” Brown
- Lived from 1816 – 1897.
- Civil Rights Activist, and Magician.
- Known for shipping himself to freedom in a wooden box with only one air hole.
Harriet Tubman
- Lived from 1820 – 1913.
- Civil Rights Activist.
- Led many enslaved people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
Frederick Douglass
- Lived from 1818 – 1895.
- Civil Rights Activist.
- First African American citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank.