Black History Month 2020
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1. What happened on that particular date?
2. What do they have to do with Black History Month?
1. Crispus Attucks (March 5, 1770)
2. Dred Scott (March 6, 1857)
3. Robert Smalls (May 13, 1862)
4. Daniel Hale Williams (July 9, 1893)
5. Homer Plessy (May 18, 1896)
6. Matthew Henson (April 6, 1909)
7. Harriet Tubman (March 10, 1913)
8. Henry Johnson (May 15, 1918)
9. Madam C. J. Walker (May 25, 1919)
10. Bessie Coleman (June 15, 1921)
11. Jesse Owens (Aug. 9, 1936)
12. Marian Anderson (April 9, 1939)
13. Jackie Robinson (April 15, 1947)
14. Brown vs. Board of Education ( May 17, 1954)
15. Rosa Parks (December 1, 1955)
16. Althea Gibson (May 26, 1956)
17. Arthur Ashe (Aug. 25, 1968)
18. The Little Rock Nine (Sept. 25, 1957)
19. Martin Luther King Jr. (August 28, 1963)
20. Malcolm X (Feb. 21, 1965)
21. Thurgood Marshall (Oct. 2, 1967)
22. Shirley Chisholm (Jan. 25, 1972)
23. Hank Aaron (April 8, 1974)
24. Nelson Mandela (May 10, 1994)
25. Oprah Winfrey (Feb. 27, 2003)
26. Barack Obama (Jan. 20, 2009)
27. Mae Jemison (June 4, 1987)