Black History Month

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  1. 2. Colvin When she was 15 she refused to get out of her seat on the bus.
  2. 4. Carlos American former track and field athlete and professional American football player. He was the bronze-medal winner in the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
  3. 5. o. Davis, From becoming a pilot. Not his white classmates at West Point, a military academy, refusing to be his roommate.
  4. 7. Walter "Major" Taylor Was an African-American professional cyclist.
  5. 8. parks Helped initiate the civil rights movement in the united states.
  6. 10. Ali Was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is frequently ranked as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
  7. 12. Was the youngest boy to win the Nobel prize.
  8. 14. Flowers Is an American bobsledder. In 2002 Winter Olympics.
  9. 15. Nell Bridges Hall Is an American civil rights activist.
  10. 16. Arthur Johnson Nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of crow.
  11. 17. Ashley Manuel Is an American professional swimmer specializing in freestyle events. Jack Arthur Johnson
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  1. 1. washington carver was an agricultural scientist how the inventor of hundreds of products using peanuts
  2. 2. Andrew Jones Is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist who specializes in freestyle sprint events.
  3. 3. Walker The First Black American to Be a Self-Made Millionaire.
  4. 6. Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson Was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama.
  5. 7. Carol Jemison She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
  6. 9. Roosevelt Robinson Was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League.
  7. 11. Oliver Davis Sr Was a United States Army general. In 1940, he became the first African-American to rise to the rank of brigadier general.
  8. 12. Eliza Mahoney Was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.
  9. 13. Tubman Was an American abolitionist and social activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 slaves, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.