Black History Month 2023

6. American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo.
7. First black Secretary of State
8. Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. was a United States Air Force general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen.
12. American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry.
13. Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist.
14. Popular poet and civil rights activist
15. Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. was a United States Air Force general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen.
16. American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
17. American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
18. Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator.
20. First black President of the United States

1. Condoleezza Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
2. American-born French dancer
3. Man who attempted to gain black rights via violent protests.
4. American blues and jazz musician. (Makes really good music by the way, check out "The thrill is gone.")
5. Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States.
9. American activist and socialist who made a huge speech at the capital famously known as "I Have a Dream.'
10. George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
11. Caused a bus boycott in Montgomery by refusing to sit in the back of the bus, was imprisoned for doing so.
19. Ida B. Wells was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement.