Black History Month

I was born a slave in Virginia.  After Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, I became a civil right activist.  I found the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.

• Michael Jackson
• Michael Jordan
• Booker T. Washington
• Frederick Douglass

I was born in 1958 in Gary, Indiana.  I became a pop singer.  My album Thriller (1982) sold over 30 million copies.  I earned the nickname "King of Pop".

• Frederick Douglass
• Michael Jackson
• Booker T. Washington
• Michael Jordan

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I joined the Chicago Bulls in 1984 of the National Basketball Association.  We won three NBA championships before I retired in 1993.  I returned in 1995 helping the Bulls win 3 more championships.

• Booker T. Washington
• Michael Jackson
• Frederick Douglas
• Michael Jordan

I was an abolitionist who fought against slavery and for women's rights.  I published an antislavery newspaper called the North Star.  I became a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln.

• Frederick Douglass
• Michael Jackson
• Booker T. Washington
• Michael Jordan

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I was the first African American allowed to play major league baseball.  I played for the Brooklyn Dodgers for 10 years.

• Harriet Tubman
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Rosa Parks
• Jackie Robinson

I escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849.  I helped hundreds of slaves travel north on the Underground Railroad.  I also helped John Brown recruit solders for the raid on Harpers Ferry.

• Jackie Robinson
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I refused to give up my seat on the bus December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama.  This started a city-wide bus boycott.

• Rosa Parks
• Harriet Tubman
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Jackie Robinson

I worked for racial equality.  Many heard my "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.  I was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

• Jackie Robinson
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks

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I was the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.  For my protection, I had to be escorted by U.S. Marshals to and from William Frantz Elementary School that first day.

• Marcus Garvey
• Jessie Owens
• Langston Hughes
• Ruby Bridges

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I was born in Jamaica.  I became a speaker for the Black Nationalism and Pan-African movements.  I founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and African Communities League.

• Marcus Garvey
• Jessie Owens
• Langston Hughes
• Ruby Bridges