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Feb 10, 2021 · Jackie Robinson. Like Ali in the 60s, Jackie Robinson was one of the most influential sports figures of his day. Robinson became the first African American to play for a Major League Baseball team ...
Here are twelve black educators who made a huge impact on history: 1. Rita Pierson. Rita Pierson gave one of the most powerful Ted Talks on education – “Every Child Needs a Champion” has become a motto for countless educators. Additionally, she led workshops on the importance of educating young African American boys.
Birthplace: Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States. Died: March 25, 1931. Civil rights and women's rights activist Ida B. Wells is remembered for speaking up against the lynching of Blacks in the U.S. She was born a slave and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. She later co-founded the NAACP.
Dec 12, 2020 · Mary McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875–May 18, 1955) Mary McLeod Bethune was an African American educator and civil rights leader best known for her work co-founding the Bethune-Cookman University in Florida. Born into a sharecropping family in South Carolina, the young Bethune had a zest for learning from her earliest days.
Oct 28, 2022 · Nat Turner’s Revolt – August 1831. Image by Unknown from Wikimedia. In August 1831, Nat Turner struck fear into the hearts of white Southerners by leading the only effective slave rebellion in U.S. history. Born on a small plantation in Southampton County, Virginia, Turner inherited a passionate hatred of slavery from his African–born ...
Jan 17, 2020 · Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (1868 to 1963) was a prominent African American intellectual, activist, and pan-Africanist who emigrated to Ghana in 1961. Du Bois was one of the leading African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century.
One of the fields that famous African Americans have contributed to the most is sports. From famous boxers such as Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, to the tennis duo Venus and Serena Williams, golf legend Tiger Woods, baseball players such as Jackie Robinson, endless list of NBA players such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson ...
