Monday, 2/6/12
Whoopi Goldburg
1. At one point she starred in the Broadway show, The Spook Show.
2. She launched her own T.V show, The Whoopie Goldburg Show, in 1992.
2. In the early 1970's, she married her drug councilor, had one child, and then divorced.
Tuesday, 2/7/12
Booker T. Washington
1. He was born inyo slavery.
2. He woreked in the salt mines in West Virginia
3. Under hid leadership, Tuskegee, Alabama, he was asked to lead a black collage instead of a white man of whom they hoped.
Wednesday 2/8/12
Tiger Woods
1. His real name is Eldrick Woods.
2. He was the youngest play to win the masters.
3. He was the first player to break over 6 million dollars with 6.6 million.
Thursday 2/9/12
Michael Jordan
1. He played for the University of North Carolina and lead them to a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I championship.
2. In 1985 he became a gaurd for the Chicago Bulls.
3. He was the lauges most valuable player in 1991 and 1992.
Monday 2/13/12
Langston Hughes
1.He was a writer born in Joplin, Missouri.
2. In his senior year he was choosen class poet and yearbook editor.
3. The Crisis printed his poem "A Negro Speaks of River."
Tuesday 2/14/12
Frederick Douglass
1. He was the first African Anerican leader of national stature in Untied States history.
2. In 1838 he inpersonated him and escaped to New York.
3. In 1870 Douglass and his sons began publishing the New National Era newspaper.
Wesday 2/15/12
Muhammad Ali
1. He had Parkinson's syndrome.
2. He was born in 1942 as Cassius Marcellus Clay.
3. He used the "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" method of fighting.
Thursday 2/16/12
Harriet Tubman
1. She was born into slavery around 1820.
2. She was a spy, nurse, feminist, and social reformer.
3. She was one of the leaders in the Underground Railroad.
Wednesday 2/22/12
Clarence Thomas
1. Hid first years of life he lived in a little shack.
2. In 1964, he was redrawed from the all black schooland sent to an all white one.
3. In 1979 he moved to Washington, DC.
Thursday 2/23/12
Colin Powell
1. He was secretary of the state.
2. He was born in Harlem, New York.
3. He was in the war, and was sent to Vietnam.
Friday 2/24/12
Benjamin Banneker
1. He was the son of two slaves.
2. He taught himself astronomy.
3. In 1980 they began making a stamp to commerate his life.
Tuesday 2/28/12
Lena Horne
1. She was an actress born in Brooklyn, New York.
2. SHe married a minor politician Louis Jones.
3. She has a biography, In Person: Lena Horne.
Wednesday 2/28/12
Hank Aaron
1. He was born in 1934 in Mobile, Alabama.
2. At an early age, he wanted to play professional baseball.
3. When he was young, baseball began to intergate with the playing of Jackie Robinson.
Maya Angelou
1. She was a world famous poet.
2. She won the grammy's and Horatio Alger awards.
3. She was raised in segregated Arkansas.
Barry Bonds
1. He broke Hank Arrons homerun record.
2. He was playing for the New York Giants when he beat the record.
3. He did take steririods.
Gale Sayers
1. He was one of the first great black running backs for the NFL.
2. He was lighting quick.
3. He was known for his great agility.
Ricky Henderson
1. He was known for talking about himself in third person.
2. He was adored by fans.
3. He had a loud mouth and everyone heard him.
Donovan McNabb
1. He wasn't appriciated by Philly.
2. He was one of the best quarterbacks to ever play.
3. He was top player in the position year after year.
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