Black History Bee: Education

Was the founder and the first president of Tuskegee Institute in 1881.

• Booker T. Washington

• Danny Tillman

• Lewis Howard Latimer

• Frederick M. Jones

Started Negro History Week which later became Black History month.

• Alexander Lucius Twilight

• Danny Tillman

• Carter G. Woodson

• Booker T. Washington

Is a long time member of the San Bernardino City Unified School District Board of Education.

• Carter G. Woodson

• Alexander Lucius Twilight

• Danny Tillman

• Booker T. Washington

Became the first known African American to graduate from a college in the United States. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the Middlebury College in Vermont.

• Alexander Lucius Twilight

• Booker T. Washington

• Danny Tillman

• Lewis Howard Latimer

Is the oldest historically black institution of higher learning, founded in Pennsylvania in 1832.

• Charlayne Hunter-Gault

• Spirituals

• Nat Love

• Cheney University

Was the first African American Deputy Superintendent for the San Bernardino City Unified School District.

• Mary McCleod Bethune

• Dr. Judy White

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

Was the founder and the first president of Tuskegee Institute in 1881.

• Booker T. Washington

• Danny Tillman

• Lewis Howard Latimer

• Frederick M. Jones

Became the first known African American to graduate from a college in the United States. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the Middlebury College in Vermont.

• Alexander Lucius Twilight

• Booker T. Washington

• Danny Tillman

• Lewis Howard Latimer

Was the first African American Deputy Superintendent for the San Bernardino City Unified School District.

• Mary McCleod Bethune

• Dr. Judy White

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

Started Negro History Week which later became Black History month.

• Alexander Lucius Twilight

• Danny Tillman

• Carter G. Woodson

• Booker T. Washington