CI 102: Black History Month

Black History Month

Rosa Parks

•Born February 4, 1913.

•Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

•Important figure in the Civil Rights Movement.

•Died October 24, 2005.

Malcolm X

•Born May 19, 1925.

•Assassinated while giving a speech in New York.

•Leader if the Nation of Islam.

•Died February 21, 1965.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Leader in the African-American civil rights movement

• Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott• Founded the SCLC (Southern

Christian Leadership Conference)• I Have a Dream Speech

Jackie Robinson

• First African-American Major League Baseball player.

• Ended nearly 60 years of baseball segregation.

• MLB retired Robinson's jersey number 42 across baseball.

Harriet Tubman

• Led slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

• Union spy during the U.S. Civil War.

• Was a leader in the abolitionist movement.

• Harriet Tubman YouTube

Sojourner Truth

• Born in 1797.• Was an American slave.• Women's rights activist.• Best known speech of Ain't I a

Woman?• Died November 26, 1883

Barack Obama

• 44th and current President of the United States.

• United States Senator from Illinois from 2005-2008.

• First African-American to hold office of the President.