Black American Power Point

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Black American Power Point

• Mr.Waters Class
• 2006-2007

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Bill Cosbyby West Ryland

• His son died in 1997.
• He was born on July 12, 1937.
• He is a comedian, writer, and TV producer.
• His full name is William Henry Cosby.

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Booker T. WashingtonBy Caroline Huggins

• Booker T. Washington was born in 1856, died in
  1915.
• In the late 1800s he taught in West Virginia in
  Malden.
• In 1901, he published a autobiography called Up
  From Slavery.
• His mother Jane died while he was at home.
• He is famous for being the first president and
  major developer of Tuskegee University.

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Brock Louby Nathan

• He is a baseball player he played for the cubs
  and the cardinals.
• He wanted to be a baseball player when he was
  young.
• He stole 938 bases, thats a lot.
• He retired after the 1979 season.
• He is in the baseball hall of fame.

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Denzel WashingtonBy Shay

• He was born in New York 1954 on December 28.
• Denzel Washington begin to pursue acting as a
  career and joined America conservatory theater.
  In San Francisco In 2002.
• Washington made his directorial debut with the
  film Ant won .

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Fredrick DouglassBy Katherine Schwarzauer

• He was an exslave american abolitionist.
• He was an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery
  Society and was a US Minister to Haiti in 1889.
• Fredrick Douglass was really Fredrick Augustus
  Washington Bailey.
• He was the first black man to be received at the
  White House by President Lincoln.

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George Washington CarverBy Karlie

• He discovered the peanut.Which invented the
  peanut butter.
• He is from Alabama .
• His mom got sold and shipped away.
• He died in January5,1943.

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Harriet Ross Tub manBy JaMya Welch

• Harriet was a conductor for the underground
  railroad.
• In 10 years she made about 20 trips North to
  South.
• .She made 17 trips to help others escape by the
  underground railroad.
• They offered a reward if someone found her for
  40,000.
• This is why she is famous.

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Jessie OwenBy Dami Fasina

• Jesse Owens set a world record for long jumping.
• Jesse Owens ran right in front of Hitler.
• Adolph Hitler refused to shake hands with Jesse
  Owens.
• Jesse Owens ran 220 yards in 20.3 seconds.

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Jim brownbyTurner

• Jim Brown was famous black football player .
• Normally he ran140 yards a game.
• He played on the Cleveland Browns.
• He was most famous for charging threw the line

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LeBron JamesBy DeQuavius MarQaun Warren

• He was very good in high school. He was like a
  super- star.
• He was held as the next basketball super- star.
• He won many trophies.

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Mae Carol JemisonBy Nancy Tao

• When Mae Jemison was 3, she and her family moved
  to Chicago where her uncle introduced her to
  science, and as she was growing up, she developed
  interests in anthropology, archaeology, evolution
  and astronomy.
• After high school and college at Stanford
  University,Mae Jemison went to medical school and
  became a doctor.
• Mae Jemison made history when she was chosen from
  a crowd of 2,000 applicants and became the first
  black woman to be selected by NASA to be an
  astronaut.

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Madam C.J. WalkerBy Bella Weeks

• Madam C.J. Walker was the first woman to make
  hair products.
• Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867 and died in
  1919.
• Madam C.J. Walker died at the age of 52 after a
  good life.
• She also is famous because she was the first
  black women millionaire.

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Martin Luther King Jr.By Will Harrelson

• Martin Luther King, Jr., was a j and civil rights
  in the United States of America.
• Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in
  Memphis, Tennessee.
• After graduating from college and getting
  married, Dr. King became a minister and moved to
  Alabama.
• Young Martin was an excellent student in school
  he skipped grades in both elementary school and
  high school .

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Michael JordanBy Colin Fields

• Michel Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to six
  championships.(1991-1993,1996-1998)
• As a college freshman, he hit the winning basket
  against Georgetown in the 1982 championship
  game.
• He also was in the hit movie Space Jam with Bugs
  Bunny Daffy Duck.

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Oprah WenfreyByMadison Rogers

• Oprah Winfrey is the first African American to
  own her own TV studio.
• Oprahs real name is Oprah Gail Winfrey.
• She was born January 29, 1954, on a farm in
  Kosciusko, Mississippi.
• She was suppose to be Oprah from the bible, but
  for some unknown reason, she has been Oprah
  almost from Birth.

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Thurgood MarshallBy Onur Kucuktas

• The first African American to serve in the US
  supreme court.
• He was the grandson of a slave.
• He married 2 times.His second wifes name was
  Cecilia Suyat.The first was Vivian Burey.
• He was a member of the NAACP.

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Serena Williams By Felicia

• Serena Williams was born September 26 1981 in
  Saginaw Michigan.
• She won a tennis compassion amongst all the
  professional girl tennis players
• She was professional tennis player.

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Ray Charles By Dashawn Sanford

• From the of his birth Albany. Georgia on
  September 23, 1930, life became an unending
  challenge for Ray Charles Robinson.
• .His death was10 June every body loved his music.
  They just didn't like his music they like him.

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Rosa Parksby Eden Cummings

• Rosa Parks didnt give up her seat to a white
  man.
• All the buses honor Rosa Parks on the 50th (day
  she was arrested).
• This happened in 1955.
• Rosa Parks started the Civil Rights movement.

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Roberto ClementeBy Jake Rose

• He was a very good hitter, winning four National
  League batting titles.
• He won 12 golden gloves,the award given to the
  best fielding player in each position in the
  league.
• Clemente made his first major league debut in
  April 1,1995.
• Clemente died in a plane crash ,by delivering
  aids to people that survived an earth quake.

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Queen Latifah ByWill Strohmeyer

• Latifahs love of rap music inspired her to make
  a singing group.
• Her first two singles sold over 40,000 copies.
• Her first album All Hail the Queen sold
  1,000,000 copies.
• Her love of rap, got her her job.

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Muhammad AliByTasnim Hassan

• Muhammad Ali was born 1942.
• Muhammads real name was Cassius Marcellus Clay.
• He began boxing when he was 12yrs. old .
• He was famous for being the best boxer in the
  world.
• He stopped boxing because the Vietnam war in
  1966.
• He entered boxing again 10yrs. later ( 1976.)

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Walter PaytonBy Andrew Brewer

• He played high school football at Jackson State
  University in Mississippi.
• In 1995 he played for the NFL Chicago Bears.
• Payton was a blocker,pass receiver,and even
  passer.
• He set a NFL record most career yards.

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We hope you learned some interesting facts about
some very interesting Americans!