Black History Month Choice Board 

Chose a prominent African American from this list to use for your project:

 

Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

Booker T. Washington

Frederick Douglas

Ruby Bridges

Benjamin Banneker

Ida B. Wells

George Washington Carver

W.E.B. DuBois

Bessie Colman

Marian Anderson

Jacob Lawrence

Paul Robeson

Jackie Robinson

Ralph Bunche

Rosa Parks

Berry Gordy Jr.

Wilma Rudolph

Martin Luther King Jr.

Shirley Chisholm

Arthur Mitchell

Thurgood Marshall

Jesse Jackson

Clara Hale

Arthur Ashe

Barbara Jordan

Quincy Jones

Alice Walker

Florence Griffith-Joyner

Colin Powell

Clarence Thomas

Mae C. Jemison

Malcom X

Toni Morrison

B.B. King

Louis Armstrong

Oprah Winfrey

Michael Jordan

Robert Johnson

Serena and Venus Williams

Condoleezza Rice

Muhammad Ali

Maya Angelou

Barack Obama

 

Here are some websites with good information:

http://www.ducksters.com/biography/africanamericans.php

http://www.timeforkids.com/minisite/black-history-month

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmbios1.html