who is a good person to do a black history month report on?

Question

i would like a really good person, probably someone most people havent even heard about because i have to present this on my schools morning announcements. (in front of everyone)

Answer 1

Elijah McCoy, an African American inventor in the late 1800's. His most famous was a self lubricating cup for trains. Since people had negitive views about blacks nobody wanted to promote his product, even though his was the best (he had a patent). So the train companies would say "I want the real McCoy." (this is acutally where the saying came from), which means they wanted the real thing.

Answer 2

There are a lot of good black people that come to mind. What about Crispus Attucks; Comparison of George Washington Carver and WEB DuBois; Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson ,Cool Papa Bell (baseball); Sojourner Truth; Harriet Tubman;what about some black actors and /or actresses which pave the way for others to follow.

Answer 3

Sojourner Truth. Her story is a different and compelling one--she freed her son not by escaping via the Underground Railroad but by using the court system! She was also a spellbinding speaker for African-American and women's rights. When I was a senior in high school I wrote my senior history essay on her. We were required to choose a subject that no one in the history of the school had done and we were required to use primary sources if possible. I was able to obtain and read a copy of her biography which she sold when she gave her speeches--quite stirring, knowing you were touching a volume that very likely had been in her hands. Anyway, I got an A not only for scholarship but also for choosing a subject that didn't get much attention at the time.

Answer 4

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, or Thurgood Marshall

Answer 5

How about Langston Hughes? A very gifted poet who doesn't get enough attention these days.

THE ***** SPEAKS OF RIVERS
By Langston Hughes

I've known rivers:

I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow
of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
down to New Orleans,

and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Answer 6

Barrack Obama
Condoleeza Rice
Colin Powell
Dred Scott
George Henry White - a former slave who served in the House of Representatives in 1880.
Henry Phelps - elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1872.
Hiram R. Revels - became the first African American Senator in 1870.
Samuel McElwee - a former slave, a lawyer, and a leader in the Republican Party in Haywood County, Tennessee during Reconstruction.
Shirley Chisholm - the first black American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Barbara Jordan - Texas' first black congresswoman who took office in 1936.
Carl B. Stokes - first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city,Detroit, Michigan, and member of the US House of Representatives. Stokes was the first African American elected to the House from Ohio.
Oscar De Priest, - became a politician after moving to Chicago. Elected in 1928, De Priest was the first African American from Illinois elected to the House of Representatives.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. - elected congressman from Harlem, 1945.
P.B.S. Pinchback - major reconstruction activist

Answer 7

Frederick Douglass, Alice Walker, Sojourner reality, Jesse Jackson, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (her recent contribution to Africa's youthful women persons) or L. Douglas Wilder or Devel Patrick (the 1st and 2nd black governors in the historic previous of u.s.... see the link)

Answer 8

Benjamen Davis Sr, first African-American general in the U S Army.........Benjamen Davis Jr, commander of Tuskegee Airman, WWII ace, first African-American general in the U S Air Force

Answer 9

Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther king jr

Answer 10

Dr. Charles Drew

Dr. Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an African American physician and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge in developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. He protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood from donors of different races since it lacked scientific foundation. In 1943, Drew's distinction in his profession was recognized when he became the first African American surgeon to serve as an examiner on the American Board of Surgery.

Ironically, Charles R. Drew died at the age of 45 from injuries suffered in a car accident in North Carolina. Newspaper accounts said that the nearest hospital refused to admit Dr. Drew because of his race, and that vital time was lost in taking him further away to a black hospital.