Mrs'' Gustafsons 3rd Grade class

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Mrs.. Gustafsons 3rd Grade class

• February is black history month

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Mary Meleod Bethune Cory Valerie

• Date of birth July 10, 1875.
• Date of Death May 18, 1955.
• She founded a school.
• Directed the division of Negro Affairs.
• National Youth administration.

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Mayme Agnew Clayton Nick and Tajuan

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• Mayme Agnew Clayton was born on August 4,1923.
• She died on October 13.
• She was a librarian and the founder of WSBRE, a
  privately held collection of African-American
  historical materials in the world.
• She joined the Reference team Jan 19, 2005

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James Weldon JohnsonBy Madison and Alissa

• He Was born on June 17,1871.
• He died on June 26, 1938.
• He was a leading American.
• He was an author, poet, and an early civil rights
  activist.
• Johnson is best remembered for his
  writing which includes novels, poem, and
  collection of folklore.
  
  

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Harriet Tubmanby Sydney Brittany

• She was born 1820.
• She died Mach 10,1913
• She use to be a spy and a run away slave.
• She later became a leader in the abolitionist
  movement.
• She freed slaves.

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Jackie RobinsonByAlex and Paul

• He was born on January 31,1919.
• He died on Oct. 24,1972.
• He was the first major league baseball player. In
  1947 he was on the Brookline dodgers.
• He was in the baseball hall of fame in 1962.
• He was a member of six world series teams.

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George Washington Carver By Nolen and Grayson

• He was born in 1864.
• He died January 5, 1943.
• He taught slaves farming techniques.
• He invented a peanut.
• He was a scientist.
• He invented over 300 products.

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Rudy Bridges By Amy W. Lucy A.

• She was born September 8, 1954.
• She is still living today.
• She was the first black person to attend an all
  white school.
• There was a large group of people yelling and
  throwing things at her as she went into school.
• White parents took their children out of school
  because they didnt want them going with black
  children.

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Rosa Parks By Luis and Brooke

• Rosa Parks February 4, 1913 Tuscany, Alabama.
  She died on October 24, 2005 in Detroit,
  Michigan.
• She is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955
  to obey bus driver James Blakes demand that she
  give her seat to a white passenger.

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Thurgood Marshall ByKenz Ricco

• His birth was July 2, 1908.
• His death was January 24, 1993.
• He was the first African American to serve on the
  Supreme Court of the United States.
• His name was really spelled Thoroughgood
  Marshall.
• His father was William Marshall.

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Ella BakerBy Ariela and Chandler

• She was a human right activist beginning in the
  1930s.
• Ella Baker was born on December13,1903 and died
  on Dember13,1986.
• She was an African American civil right activist
  and worked with some of the most famous civil
  right leader of the century including Dubious,
  Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and
  Martin Luther King Jr.
• Ella Baker was born in Norfolk Virginia.

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