the first black player inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame. 10. This person's performance at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games made him famous. George Washington Carver Frederick Douglass Mae Jemison Thurgood Marshall Jesse Owens Rosa Parks Jackie Robinson Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Booker T. Washington Step 2: Choose one of the famous black Americans above and write a short (2 or 3 paragraphs) biography about him/her in Word. Answer the questions below to help
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what we know as the Civil Rights Movement. The fight for racial equality started long before the 1950’s, in the early 1900’s, the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) was created by Booker T. Washington, and Webb Du Bios, Mr. Washington was actually an ex-slave. As the NAACP grew in numbers and support, the NAACP also published its own newspaper, showing progress, and enticing people to come forward to support for their rights. One of its first victories was
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believe he is to be accredited with the invention of peanut butter, George Washington Carver actually gave peanuts a numerous amount of uses. According to Manning Morable on a Carver biography, “George Washington Carver's greatest accomplishment was in being a role model to a generation of young African American scientists who followed him” ("George Washington Carver - Mini Biography."). He was recruited by Booker T Washington in 1896 to teach at the Tuskegee Institute. Carver helped former slaves,
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A Race for a Race “Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.(Brainyquotes.com) Fifty-two years ago, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, he gave the “I Have a Dream”speech which later, influenced the future for every African-American…...“I have a dream, that one day this nation will rise up and live up to its creed. We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal…..."(americanrhetoric.com) the crowd started
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Josephine Baker was an African American dancer, actress, pop music and jazz singer who was known for by multiple nicknames such as the “Bronze Venus”, “Black Pearl”, “Jazz Cleopatra”, and the “Creole Goddess”. Baker was a thrilling entertainer. More than that, she was the 20th Century’s first international black female sex symbol. The resume of Ms. Baker does not end after being known as an enticing erotic performer, she was also known for becoming an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. After
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|His threat to march on Washington to protest | | | |fought Discrimination |discriminatory treatment caused former | | | | |President Franklin D. Roosevelt to react with | | | | |new policies on job discrimination. | |Booker T. |1856 |Tuskegee
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leave the auditorium as she wanted to address students only. Leading the strike against her school was out of character for Barbara, who is described as “quiet and studious,” she was inspired by the likes of notable African American leader Booker T. Washington and Richard Wright, and she read books written by both men. The students who lead the strike at Morton High School had to embrace the racism that kept their school in horrible conditions, as they embraced the challenge to change the conditions;
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nineteen militants from the Islamic extremist group “al-Qaeda” took four planes and targeted the United States. It was a suicide mission. Two out of the four planes flew into the Twin Towers in New York City. The third plane flew into the Pentagon in Washington D.C.. The fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. There were over 3,000 casualties in the attacks. 9/11 initiatives combat terrorism defined George W. Bush as a president. When the two planes hit the Twin Towers it was September 11,
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Lion in the White House Chapter 1 As a child Theodore Roosevelt Jr. suffered from asthma and was regularly taken to other states where the air allowed him to breath with ease. His father was his care taker due to his mother being very sick with headaches and stomach complications making her unable to care for him. He was very intrigued with nature and animals. His family called him Teedie; he was born into an upper-class family. His father was Republican while his mother was Democratic
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Hayes-Tilden election In 1876, the two major candidates running for President were Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, and Samuel J. Tilden, a Democrat. The first returns indicated a victory for Tilden, who had won the popular vote with 4,284,020 votes to Hayes' 4,036,572. But Tilden's 184 electoral votes -- the votes that would decide the Presidency -- were still one short of a majority, while Hayes' 165 electoral votes left him 20 ballots away. The votes of three Southern states and one western
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