What are some black history legends?

Question

I have to do a project

Answer 1

John Henry
Stagger Lee (or Stack-O-Lee)

Answer 2

The Late Congressman Metcalf, Harold Washington, Ida B. Wells, Lady Day, Dr Daniel Hale Williams, Dr Patricia Bath, Nancy Green, A Lady named Emily that is the reason for the Texas State anthem" The Sweetest Little Rosebud", at the Alamo, Morris B. Williams, Queen Sophie Charlotte, Fredrick Douglas,Fredrick M Jones and the List is ad infinitum!

Answer 3

Just trying to mention people that have not already appeared above...
Kunta Kinte (the movie "Roots") He is kind of a fictional character, but he qualifies as a legend.
And George Washington Carver, who was born into slavery and became an inventor:

"George Washington Carver (c. 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American botanist who worked in agricultural extension at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, and who taught former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency. He also experimented with peanuts and other plants, and he is widely credited for inventing hundreds of uses for the vegetation, although he often left no formulas or procedures and his exact output is hard to ascertain."

Answer 4

THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

The original French Statue of Liberty is black - because the model was a black woman.

In a book called "The Journey of the Songhai People" by Dr Jim Hoskins,( a member of the National Education Advisory Committee of the Liberty-Ellis Island Committee, and Professor of English at the University of Florida as well as prolific black author) points out that what stimulated the idea for the creation of the statue initially was the part that black soldiers played in the ending of black African Bondage in the U.S. It was created in the mind of the French historian Edouard de Leboulaye, chairman of the French Anti-slavery Society who together with sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, proposed to the French government that the people of France present to the people of the U.S. through the American Abolitionist Society, the gift of the Statue of Liberty in recognition of the fact that Black soldiers won the Civil War in the U.S.

It was widely known that black soldiers played a pivotal role in winning the war and this gift would be a tribute to their prowess. Suzanne Nakasian, Director of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island Foundations' National Ethnic Campaign said that the black American's direct connection to Lady Liberty is unknown to the majority of Americans - BLACK or WHITE!

When the statue was presented to the U.S. Minister to France in 1884 it is said that he remonstrated that the dominant view of the broken hackles would be offensive to a US South, because the statue was a reminder of blacks winning their freedom. It was a reminder to a beaten South of the ones who caused their defeat, their despised former captives.

One can go and see the original model of the Statue of Liberty, with the broken chains at her feet and in her left hand. Go to the museum of the City of N.Y, Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street or write to Peter Simmons and he can send some documentation.

You can also check with the French Mission or the French Embassy at the U.N. or in Washington DC and ask for some original French material on the Statue of Liberty including the Original Bartholdi model.

Answer 5

MLK Jr
Sugar Ray
Mohammed Ali
Jackie Robinson
Colonel Sanders

Answer 6

Try these...

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Wilma Rudolph, Jesse Owens, Thurgood Marshall, etc.

Also try narrowing it down to a particular portion of BHM, such as politics, sports, news, medicine, business, etc. That would make your focus much better and well explained.

Good luck.

Answer 7

Google "Famous black people." Define legends by your own project standards.

Answer 8

this isnt a legend but theres always the songs and codes they used 4 safe houses and like harriet tubman

Answer 9

well theres the obvious Malcom X, Rev. Martin Luther King....I like Langston Hughes he wrote AMAZING poetry. An interestinig one might be James Brown. Just yahoo this and you will come up with tons of info! good luck

Answer 10

Martin Luther King earned his Phd honestly..YOU DID ASK FOR A LEGEND.......actually he plaglarized most of it but the deans at Boston Colege had decided it was time to award a PHd to a black man so they overlooked it,....