Black History Month

1. He was such an amazing speaker that he started traveling all over the northern states, trying to convince large groups of people to end the practice of enslaving people.
3. Thanks to his leadership and his pilots’ success, the military now understood that allowing Black and white soldiers to serve together was the right thing to do.
5. Her thrilling speeches won her the respect of many educated people fighting for the rights of Black people and women. That included President Abraham Lincoln.
6. His best known case was Brown vs. Board of Education, which challenged school segregation, when white and Black students are forced to go to separate schools.
8. Inspired to spread knowledge to others, Washington later established and became the first principal and teacher of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
9. Using reporting methods that are still used today, she exposed conditions that African Americans were forced to live under.
11. She was told to give up her seat to a white passenger. She refused.
13. Decided to run for president (the first African-American woman to do so)
14. The first African-American woman to obtain an international pilot’s license

2. Became the first Black person to graduate from Iowa State College
4. One of her biggest accomplishments at NASA was helping calculate the trajectory, or path, of the country’s first human spaceflight in 1961, making sure astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., had a safe trip.
7. Delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech, which boosted public support for civil rights
10. His most memorable act of “good trouble” occurred on March 7, 1965, when he led a group of 600 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on what would be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
12. Is well known for risking her life as a “conductor” in the Underground Railroad, which led escaped enslaved people to freedom in the North.