Top 10 People To Celebrate Black History Month
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https://youtu.be/7i8Zga1txVA - Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. It has received official recognition from governments in the United States and Canada, and more recently has been observed in Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Wikipedia
Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2021 – Mon, Mar 1, 2021
Observed by: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands
Also called: African-American History Month
Significance: Celebration of the African diaspora including, African-American history
Martin Luther King Jr.
1. No single African American in history is perhaps as famous as Martin Luther King Jr., otherwise known as MLK.
2. Rosa Parks is best known for refusing to move to the back of a bus after the driver demanded she give her seat to a white passenger.
3. Born Cassius Clay in 1942, Muhammad Ali made his name in the sport of boxing, where he was one of the greatest heavyweight champions of all time.
4. Frederick Douglass lived during the Civil War in the middle of the 19th century, which was fought over slavery and its role in American society.
W.E.B Du Bois
5. W.E.B Du Bois made his name as an esteemed author, academic, and civil rights activist in the generation before Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Du Bois was one of the founders of the NAACP
Jackie Robinson
6. Jackie Robinson was, like Muhammad Ali in the 1960s, one of the most influential sports figures of his day. In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play for a Major League Baseball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers.
7. Born into slavery in 1822, Harriet Tubman was famous for her abolitionist and humanitarian efforts to help escaped slaves after escaping slavery herself in 1849.
Sojourner Truth
8. Like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but later escaped and became a prominent abolitionist and activist for women’s rights.
9. Langston Hughes was an esteemed novelist and poet who made his mark during the Harlem Renaissance, a period African American cultural and artistic growth that took place in Harlem, New York
10. Maya Angelou is one of the best-known African American authors, famed for her autobiographies. Her most influential autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, tells a coming-of-age tale that shows racism as it affected a young girl.
https://www.americahousekyiv.org/ah-blog/2018/2/17/in-celebration-of-black-history-month-10-influential-african-americans
