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Lucy Terry
Lucy makes one of the best poems
Year was: 1755 -
Phillis Wheatley
The first published African-American female poet. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. Wheatley is forced to defend her poetry in court. Wheatley writes a poem for George Washington -
Eli Whitney
Eli invented the cotton gin in 1793 then after 1798, he manufactured muskets at a factory in New Haven, Connecticut, which was one of the first to use mass-production methods. -
Nat Turner
Nat Turner was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 -
Elizabath Jenning Graham
She was like Rosa Parks that she refused to leave. The thing is she refused to leave the church. This was on July 16, 1854. -
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver, was an American botanist and inventor.he was born into slavery in Missouri -
Frederick Douglass
He was a African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Date is unknown. -
Mary McLeod Bethune
She was an educator at Opende Daytona Educational and Industrial private School for Negro Girls -
Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955 Rosa refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. -
Martin Luther King Jr
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered around the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC. Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968,he was fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama became the first African american president from 2009 until 2017. Also the first born outside the contiguous United States. -
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama was a lawyer and a writer. And she was also the first African american first lady from 2009 until 2017.
