How black americans helped to shape your history

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Assignment:

The following list documents 35 black Americans worthy of your study-some you may know or some of whom you have heard or some of whom you may never have heard. Your challenge in this independent study is to honor them all.

Directions: Use inquiry methods to craft brief descriptions of how the following black Americans helped to shape your history. Be certain to document when each individual lived (birth, death) and his or her major accomplishment(s).

- Virgie Ammons
- Benjamin Banneker
- Miriam Benjamin
- Sarah Boone
- John Albert Burr
- Bebe Moore Campbell
- George Washington Carver
- Kenneth Chenault
- Alfred L. Cralle
- George "Speck" Crum
- Dr. Charles Drew
- Joycelyn Elders
- Harry O. Flipper
- Medgar Evers
- Jeff Henderson
- Jesse Jackson
- Shirley Ann Jackson
- Thomas Jennings
- Sandra Kitt
- Lewis H. Latimer
- John Lee Love
- Earl Lucas
- Thurgood Marshall
- Elijah McCoy
- Alexander Miles
- Jeffrey Nash
- William Pickett
- Joseph Rainey
- Tavis Smiley
- Bryant Terry
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Booker T. Washington
- August Wilson
- Marvin Woods
- Carter Woodson

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