Black History Month/ Women's History Month

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  1. 1. She was born December 13, 1989 and is an American singer songwriter. She is most known for writing songs about her relationships.
  2. 8. He was born 1941 and an African-American political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist. In 1971 he founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), an organization to combat racism.
  3. 10. She was born in 1926 and was an American movie actress. She was noted for her breathy singing style and died at age 36.
  4. 11. II She was born in 1926 in Great Britian. She is the queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  5. 14. She was born in 1954 in New York.She is the first Latina justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
  6. 15. She was born in 1954 and is a talk show host. Emmy Award-winning television show is the highest-rated talk show in syndication history.
  7. 17. She was born in 1961 and was a Romanian- American gymnast. In the 1976 Olympics, she won 5 medals and scored a perfect 10 in two of her events.
  8. 19. He was born Aug. 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaiii. He is the 44th president in the U.S.A.
  9. 20. He was born in 1982 in Chicago he is a basketball player. He plays with the Miami Heat.
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  1. 2. He was born 1875 and was a historian and educator. He was the second African American to earn a Harvard doctorate.
  2. 3. She was born Aug. 19, 1883 in Samur, France. She is known as the designer who,created the little black dresss.
  3. 4. She was born in 1981 and is a tennis player. She beat Martina Hingis for 1999 U.S. Open championship to become the first African-American woman to win a Grand Slam title since Althea Gibson in 1958.
  4. 5. He was born in 1901 and a jazz artist. A famous innovator, Armstrong was a major influence on the melodic development of jazz in the 1920s; because of him solo performance attained a position of great importance in jazz.
  5. 6. He was born in 1929 and was an American clergyman and civil-rights leader. He had a speech called "I Have a Dream".
  6. 7. She was born Jan. 1, 1939 in Melbourne,Australia. She wrote articles and appeared on talk shows lecturing about Elizabthian and Jacobeon drama.
  7. 9. She was born 1887 and was an American painter. Her paintings used a close up photographic technique and her most famous painting is Cow's Skull.
  8. 12. He was born 9/25/1968 in Philadelphia he is an actor. He got start in show business as half of the Grammy Award-winning rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.
  9. 13. He was born 1817 an an American abolitionist. An amazing speech before a meeting at Nantucket of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1841 was so effective that he was made one of its agents.
  10. 16. She was born in 1931 and is an English ethologist and primatologist. After working with Louis Leakey, she established (1960) a research camp in the Gombe Stream Game Reserve, a national park in what is now Tanzania, to study chimpanzee behavior.
  11. 18. He was born 1864 and was an American agricultural chemist. He discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut, the sweet potato, and the soybean.