Black History Month Assignment

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  1. 4. T. Washington - an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, was the most dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite
  2. 5. King - an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing
  3. 6. Powell - an American politician and diplomat. Became the first United States Secretary of State
  4. 9. X - an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. A vocal spokesman for the Nation of Isalm
  5. 11. B. Wells - an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. Founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  6. 13. Garvey - a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. Founder and first President - General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
  7. 15. Hughes - an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. One of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form called jazz poetry
  8. 16. Luther King Jr. - an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement
  9. 18. Scott - an enslaved African-Americans man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and his family
  10. 19. Baker - an American-born French entertainer, French resistance agent, and civil rights activist
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  1. 1. DuBois - an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor
  2. 2. Obama - an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States and was the first African-American president in the US
  3. 3. Wheatley - the first African-American author of a published book of poetry
  4. 5. O. Davis - a United States Air Force general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen. The first black Brigadier general in the United States Air Force.
  5. 7. Neale Hurston - an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker and portrayed racial struggles in the early 1990s American South and published research on hoodoo
  6. 8. Parks - an American activist in the civil rights movement. “The first lady of the civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement.” Known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
  7. 10. Angelou - an American poet, memorist, and civil rights activist
  8. 12. Rice - an American diplomat, political scientist, civil servant, and professor who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
  9. 14. Tubman - am American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, but escaped and freed other slaves
  10. 17. Washington Carver - an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century.