Black History Month Facts

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.

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