Black History Month

Colin Powell
1. He was Secretary of State and served security advisor to Ronald Reagan.
2. Born in Harlem, New York
3. Wemt to City College of New York
4. In 1962 he was stationed in Fort Devans, Massachusets
5. In 1987 Powell replaced Carlucci as security advisor
Langston Hughes
1. Born in Joplin Missouri on February 1st 1902
2. Won ab athletic letter in track
3. In 1923 he signed on as steward to a freighter
4. He wrote "Not Without Laughter" in 1930
5. He recieved the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1953
Tiger Woods
1.Born 1975 in Orlando, Florida
2. Won 2 titles and finished in top 10 of 5 Golf Tours
3. In 2000 capped off an impressive first half of year his third major
4. December SAG slapped him 100,000$ fine
5. First player in history to sweep all four major tournaments in a row
Sojourner Truth
1. Born into slavery
2. Early years documented in The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
3. In 1827 Truth fled Dumont's farm
4. In 1851 active in suffrage fefatured speaker
5. Continued to support her people after Emancipaion Proclemation
George Washington Carver
1. Started his life as a slave
2. Responsibility of his education was his hands
3.Sketched "Ycca Gloriosa" in 1893 amd won frist prize World's Columbian Exposition
4. In 1896 recieved unique offer to teach at Tuskegee Institution
5.Created 60 products from the pecan
Benjamin Bannek
1. Grew up in Maryland
2. His specially designed wheat prevented U.S. Troops from starving
3. Published an almanac that became best seller from Maryland to Kentucky
4. Was placed on planning committee to develop nationals capital
5. In 1880 Postal Service issued stamps to commemortate him
Harriat Tubman'
1. Born into slavery in Maryland
2. Escaped from slavery in South a year before Civil War broke out
3. Started the underground railroad
4. In 1844 married John Tubman
5. Started to free her family then included any slave
Jesse Owens
1. Born September 12th, 1913
2. Owens ran 100-yard in 10 seconds
3. Won four gold medals at 1936
4. Jimmy Carter awarded with a Living Legends Awards
5. He earned a Congressional Gold Medal 10 years after he died
lois Armstrong
1. Born in New Orleans, Loisoamama.
2. He was a jazz musician and entertainer
3. He grew up in a deprived situation, both physically and mentally
4. In 1922 Joseph Oliver brought him to Chicago to play with the legendary Creole Jazz Band
5. In 1960 was still singing and playing but soon stopped after that due to injury on his lip
Muhammad Ali
1. Born January 17th 1942
2. In 1960 won gold medal in Olympic Games in lightweight devision
3. Began boxing at age 12
4. At age 22 became heavyweight champion of the world
5. In 1980 he supported Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party
Fredrick Douglas
1. He was the foremost African American abolitionist
2. In 1825 his masters sent him to live with Hugh Auld
3. In 1838 impersonated a African American sailor papers
4. In 1863 he was asked to recruit some colored soldiers for the Civil War
5. In 1870 him and his sons began publishing New National Era newspaper
Mae Jemison
1. He was an astronaut and physician
2. In 1977 recieved B.S. in chemical engineering
3. In 1981 she obtained her M.D.
4. Became first African American women to be admitted into the atronaut program
5. In 1992 she was awarded the Ebony Black Achievement Award
Crispus Attucks
1. First to die in the Boston Massacre
2. He was escaped slave
3. Was a whaler and reporter
4. Worked as a ropemaker
5. Learned to read and write and studied government
James Madison
1.Oldest of nine children
2. Preacher when he was a teenager
3. Wrote a semi-biography Go Tell it on a Mountain.
4. Lived in France for a couple years
5. Perticapated in the march with Martin Luther King JR.
Guion Blueford
1. First African- American in space
2. Flew as a mission specelist
3. Got a PhD.
4. Colonel in Air Force
5. Logged 688 hours in space