Febuary Bellringers-Black History Month

James Baldwin-
1.)He was a writer
2.)greatest achievement as awriter was his ability to address American race relations from a psychological perspective
3.)Two of his best wroks were "Go Tell It On The Mountain" and "The Amen Corner"
4.)reamined abroad much of the 15 years before his passing
5.)He died of stomach cancer November 30,1987 in Saint-Paul-de-Vance, France.

George Washington Carver-
1.)Was originally a slave.
2.)He attended Simpson College for three years
3.)Carver was curious about crop rotation and soil as a scientist
4.)Had a building built in his honor at Tuskegee Institute
5.)He died January 5th, 1943

William Edward Burghardt
1.)Founder and secratary of the Niagra movement
2.)Was part of CRISIS
3.)had two children
4.)died August 27,1963
5.)his funeral marked a phenomenon

Benjamin Banneker
1.)was the son of two freed slaves
2.)was the first African American inventor\
3.)taught astronomy
4.)published an almanac
5.)had a stamp made after him

Muhammad Ali
1.)had parkinsons synderome
2.)born january 17,1942
3.)began boxing when he was 12 after hsi bike was stolen
4.)won 100 out of 108 matches
5.)father of nine children and married four times.

 Jackie Joyner Kersee
1.)Track and field athlete
2.)went to UCLA
3.)was a world class athlete
4.)retired from competition in 1998
5.)born March 3,1962

Langston Hughes
1.)Born in Joplin Missouri
2.)graduated from cleaveland high school in 1920
3.)wrote the poem " A Negro Speaks of River"
4.)went to live with his mother in 1924
5.)he made lecture tours.
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee

 1.)Was born on March 3, 1962 in East St. Louis, Illinois.
2.)She was a track and basketball star in high school.
3.)Jackie got an athletic scholarship to UCLA where she earned a B.A. in history.
4.)She won a silver medal in the heptathlon in the 1884 Olympics.
5.)In the 1988 and 1992 games, she won gold medals.

Sojourner Truth

1.)She was born into slavery in Ulster County, New York.
2.)She spoke out against racial oppression that she had endured throughout her childhood.
3.)In 1850 she published "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth".
4.)She became a itinerant preacher and traveled around New England.
5.)By 1851 she was active in the suffrage movement.

Mae Jemison

1.)Mae C. Jemison was an astronaut and physician who was born on October 17, 1956.
2.)She was the first African American woman ever admitted into the astronaut training program.
3.)On September 12, 1992 she flew into space with six other astronauts on the Endeavour.
4.)She conducted experiments on weightlessness and motion sickness.
5.)Mae spent slightly over 190 hours in space.

Clarence Thomas

1.)Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia.
2.)For the first few years of his life he lived in a one room shack with dirt floors.
3.)He was a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
4.)In 1979, he moved to Washington D.C. and became a legislative assistant.
5.)In 1982 he became the chairman of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

 Maya Angelou
1.)She was a writer, poet andf director.
2.)She was born on April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri.
3.)She was raped by her mother's boyfriend at the age of 7.
4.)Her rapist was later found beaten to death in an alley.
5.)Angelou stopped speaking after the incident.