Famous African Americans in History

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Famous African Americans in History
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DR. Martin Luther King junior

• Martin was a leader for the civil rights movement
• He was awarded the Nobel peace prize
• He led a peaceful march on Washington, D.C.,
  with 250,000 people where he delivered is famous
  I have a dream speech.

• He has been thrown in jail 29 times for
  expressing his views about the treatment of
  African Americans.
• America celebrates the life of King on the
  federal holiday known as Martin Luther King day.
  It is held on the 3rd Monday of January each
  year.
• Martin was assassinated on the balcony of his
  hotel.

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Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Tubman was famous for being a conductor
  for the underground railroad.
• The underground railroad was a network of safe
  houses where run away slaves could stay on there
  journey to freedom
• She was a very brave women that help bring over
  300 slaves to freedom.
• She led Fredrick Douglas to freedom.
• The south offered a 40,000 dollar reward for her
  capture.
• She also became a leader of the abolitionist
  movement.

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Rosa parks

• Rosa Parks is best known for not giving up her
  seat on a bus to a white man.
• She was put in jail for her actions and resulted
  in the Montgomery Bus boycott against
  segregation.
• She was a pioneer for the civil rights movement
• She was awarded the presidential medal of freedom
  in 1996.
• Parks died in 2005 at age 92. She was the first
  woman in American history to lie in state at the
  Capitol, an honor usually reserved for Presidents
  of the United States.

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Madam c. j. WALKER

• She suffered from hair loss which inspired her to
  begin experimenting with home-made hair care
  products.
• Madam C. J. Walker transformed the hair care and
  cosmetics industry for African American women
  early in the 20th century.

• She founded her own business and began selling
  Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp
  conditioning and healing formula.
• She opened a beauty school in Pittsburg employing
  at one point over 3,000 people. She offers many
  cosmetics, licensed Walker Agents, and Walker
  Schools offered employment to thousands of Black
  women.
• She was known as on of the first African-American
  woman to become a self-made millionaire.

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Test Your knowldge

• Hair care products led which of these African
  American women to becoming a millionaire?
• 2. Who was awarded the presidential medal of
  freedom ?
• Who led a number of slaves to freedom?
• 4. Which one these African Americans have a
  federal holiday?

Rosa Parks
Madam C.J. Walker
Harriet Tubman
Dr. King
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Dr. King
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Dr. King
Madam C.J. Walker
Harriet Tubman
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This has been a mini lesson on. famous African
Americans in History
References
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