BLACK HISTORY

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BLACK HISTORY

• A - Z

WELCOME TO OUR PRESENTATION
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Ralph Abernathy

• Ralph Abernathy was an American minister, a civil
  rights leader, and an aid to Dr. Martin Luther
  King.
• He had an impact on black history because he was
  one of the civil rights leaders and secretary to
  the C.S.C.

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Benjamin Banneker

• Benjamin Banneker was a man who wrote books.
• He loved the way of writing. He lived on a farm.
• Benjamin Banneker had an enormous impact on Black
  History because he proved that black writers are
  just as good as white writers.

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Shirley Chisholm

• Shirley Chisholm was the first African American
  women to serve in the United States Congress.
• She was also a consultant for the citys Bureau
  of Child Welfare in New York City.

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Frederick Douglass

• Frederick Douglass was the first black citizen to
  hold high rank in the U.S. government.
• He was also the first black American who was one
  of the most eminent human-rights leader of the
  19th century.

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Duke Ellington

• Duke Ellington was a famous jazz musician.
• He was a pianist, composer, and bandleader.
• He was a discoverer of big band jazz-he was
  devoted to jazz since he was 18.
• Many African-Americans took after him to create
  jazz. Soon, later, big band jazz led to the swing
  era.
• He was a very important person in jazz history.

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Aretha Franklin

• She was born in 1942.
• She sang the blues, jazz, and gospel.
• At the age of 12 she made her first record.
• She was the best singer of her time.
• She also has won 15 Grammy's.

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George Washington Carver

• George Washington Carver became a consultant in
  agricultural research for the U.S.department of
  agriculture.
• He invented peanut butter and was good in the
  peanut industry.

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Jimi Hendrix

• He was an American blues electric guitar player.
• He was a symbol of the 1960s youth
  counterculture.
• He was a good guitar player.

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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

• She became a teacher. She did not give up her
  seat for the colored section.
• She led a national campaign against lynching.
• She marched in suffrage parades in Washington
  D.C. and Chicago.

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Scott Joplin

• Scott Joplin wrote many songs including the
  Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer.
• Joplin also wrote two operas they were
  Treemonisha and A Guest of Honor.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

• He was a leader of the Civil Rights movement.
• He formed the Southern Christian Leadership
  Conference.
• He lead the Southern Blacks in nonviolent protest
  against segregation in the South.

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Lewis Latimer

• Lewis Latimer was a very good inventor.
• He even drafted the patent drawings for the
  telephone made by Alexander Graham Bell.
• His was the original draft for Thomas Edison.

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Muhammad Ali

• Muhammad Ali was a famous black boxer.
• He also had a record of 61 fights won 56, 37 by
  KO and lost 5, 1 by KO.
• He also stood up for his religious beliefs
  because he was going to go to war.

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Herbie Nichols
He composed about 170 songs and made 4 albums
from 1955-1957. He was in the army from
1941-1943. He made many songs for dramas and put
humor into his work.
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Kid Ory

• He was born in 1886 on Christmas Day. As a child,
  he played homemade instruments, so it was easy to
  see that he had a desire for music.
• He was the most famous trombonist in the early
  years of jazz. From 1912-1919 he led one of the
  best bands in New Orleans.

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Floyd Patterson

• Floyd Patterson was a professional boxer.
• He was the Olympic middleweight champion in 1952.
• He was the world heavyweight champion in
  1956-59-60-62.
• He claimed the New York Golden Gloves title in
  both 1951 and 1952.
• He was the youngest champion in history.
• He retired in 1972 at age 37.

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Quincy Jones

• Quincy Jones was a a great African American
  composer.
• He was a major Supporter of the Martin Luther
  King operation Breadbasket. He also played his
  music for the march of Civil Rights.

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Rosa Parks

• Rosa Parks was famous because she was one of the
  leaders in the bus boycott.
• Martin Luther King Jr. helped her also. She was
  arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the
  bus.

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Segregation

• Segregation happened in the 1920s and ended in
  the 1960s.
• Segregation separated white and black people.
• Segregation happened at schools, parks, jobs and
  even whole states!

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Lucy Terry

• She was born in Africa in 1730.
• Wrote the poem Bars Fight in 1746.
• Married a free black, Abijah Prince.
• Handled a case against false land claims of
  Colonel Eli Bronson.

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Underground Railroad

• The Underground Railroad was a route for blacks
  to follow to escape slavery in the south.
• Harriet Tubman made 15 trips to the Underground
  Railroad to free blacks.
• Southerners were paid to catch escaped slaves
  using the Underground Railroad.
• The Underground Railroad eventually led the Civil
  War.

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James Van Der Zee

• Was an African-American photographer in the
  1920s and 30s
• His pictures chronicled the Harlem Renaissance.
• His pictures also showed middle class black life
  at the time, a side of life rarely seen at the
  time.

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Phillis Wheatley

• Phillis Wheatley was a slave who was treated very
  well and even schooled by her owner John
  Wheatley of whom she got her last name.
• Wheatley was the First Black Woman Poet in the
  U.S. Her poems were praised by George Washington.

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Malcolm X

• He spoke in 1965 about peace and freedom saying
  You cant separate peace from freedom because no
  one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
• He also said, Dr. King wants the same thing as I
  want. Freedom.

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Andrew Jackson Young

• Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was an American Civil
  Rights Leader.
• He changed Black History because he became active
  in the Civil-Rights movement and gave the rights
  for blacks to vote. In 1981 Andrew Jackson Young
  was elected Mayor.

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Zora Neale Hurston

• She was born on January 7, 1891 and died January
  28,1960.
• She was a novelist, a folkorist, and an
  anthropologist.
• She wrote eleven books and her most famous was
  Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Although she was criticized by blacks because
  they thought her writing was offensive, she
  later published four novels.
• She currently has a new book called Wrapped In
  Rainbows The life of Zora Neale Hurston. The
  book is made by Valerie Boyd