Black History Month

Who am I?

*Richest person in history...

*Devout Muslim...

*Great Emperor of Mali

Who am I?

*First black woman elected to Congress...

*Co-founder Congressional Black Caucus

*Slogan..."Unbought and Unbossed"...

Who am I?

*First-person of color to be president of USA...

*former Senator from Illinois...

*Slogan"Change we believe in," and "Yes we can!"

*former law professor...

Who am I?

An African American journalist, abolitionist, and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s...

Who am I?

*Helped start movements to unify Africa to push out European control...

*First Prime Minister of Ghana...

*First President of Ghana...

I was a Jamaican political leader, military strategist, and Obeah woman

I researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied my expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.

I was a NASA mathematician who helped send the first Americans into space and the first astronauts into space. I was one of the most celebrated black women in space science...

I was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist and leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, which sought to unify and connect people of African descent worldwide. I organized the United States' first Black nationalist movement. In the years following World War I, I urged Black Americans to be proud of their identity.

I was an emancipated slave who faced racial discrimination and financial hardship while pursuing my dream of becoming a doctor. To pay for my medical education, I alternated every year of my studies with a year of picking cotton. It took me seven years to graduate. In 1898, I became the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Georgia...