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CI 102: Black History Month Powerpoint.
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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.