Students Will Create a Poster About One Influential Black American from the Past 100 Years

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Students will create a poster about one influential black American from the past 100 years.

The poster should be a full size poster (22x28 inches) and can be any color.

The poster will include:

- The person’s name in a visible font. - A picture of the person. - A five paragraph essay on your chosen subject that will include an introduction, accomplishments, why the person is notable, why you chose the person and a conclusion. - Additional pictures and symbols that represent talents or character traits of the person.

You can also produce Word Clouds to enhance your project from www.tagxedo.com and www.wordle.net .

The person you chose should have had a positive effect on US History.

Resources http://www.history.com/topics/black-history-month http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom/about-black-history-month http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/ http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/african_american_resources.html http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/ http://www.factmonster.com/spot/afroambios.html Possible Topics:  Elijah Muhammad  Mary McLeod Bethune Athletes  Rosa Parks  Garrett Augustus Morgan  Hank Aaron  Bobby Seale  Madame C.J. Walker  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar  Emmett Till  Booker T. Washington  Muhammad Ali  Walter White  Daniel Hale Williams  Arthur Ashe  Roy Wilkins Politicians, Lawyers, and Other Government Leaders  Charles Barkley Entertainers  Ralph Bunche  Wilt Chamberlain  Josephine Baker  Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr.  Althea Gibson  Halle Berry  Minnie Joycelyn Elders  Reggie Jackson  Dorothy Dandridge  Jesse Jackson  Michael Jordan  Sammy Davis Jr.  Daniel "Chappie" James  Jackie Joyner-Kersee  Morgan Freeman  Thurgood Marshall  Sugar Ray Leonard  Gregory Hines  Colin Powell  Joe Louis  Lena Horne  Clarence Thomas  Jesse Owens  James Earl Jones  Andrew Young  Jackie Robinson  Spike Lee  Coleman Young  Tiger Woods  Eddie Murphy  Barrack Obama Authors  Sidney Poitier Singers and Musicians  Maya Angelou  Richard Pryor  Marian Anderson  Ralph Ellison  Will Smith  Louis Armstrong  Alex Haley  Denzel Washington  Harry Belafonte  Lorraine Hansberry  Oprah Winfrey  Chuck Berry  Langston Hughes Inventors, Scientists, and Educators  Ray Charles  Zora Neale Hurston  Archibald Alphonso  Nat King Cole  Toni Morrison Alexander  Miles Davis  Walter Mosley  Patricia Bath  Duke Ellington  Richard Wright  Bessie Coleman  Aretha Franklin Civil Rights Leaders and  David Crosthwait Jr. Activists  Dizzy Gillespie  Mark Dean  Ella Baker  Jimi Hendrix  Charles Drew  Stokely Carmichael  Billie Holiday  Matthew Henson  W.E.B. DuBois  Michael Jackson  Mae Jemison  Marcus Garvey  Robert Johnson  Percy Lavon Julian  Martin Luther King Jr.  Diana Ross  Frederick McKinley Jones  Malcolm X  Stevie Wonder  Ernest Everett Just  James Meredith

List compiled taken from http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/tp/famousafricanamericans.htm