Bellringer Facts.

George Washington Carver.

-Became the kidnap victim of night riders.
-Had responsibltity for his own education.
-He didm't quit his High School like his brother he wanted to finish it.in Minneapolis Kansas.

Thurgood Marshall
-Born July 2, 1980 in Baltimore Maryland.
-He went to Howard Univerity and went to law school.
-He won 29 out of 32 civil rights cases which he and his aides aruged befoere the supreme court.

Jackie Joyner- Kersee
-Track and field athlete and born March 3,1962
-She became one of the worlds greatest female athletes in history.
-She holds the worlds record in the long jump at 24 feet and 7inches.

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
-She was born a slave in Holly Springs.
-Her family was killed due to Yellow fever while visiting realitives.
-She was foribly thrown out of a first-class car by the conductor because she refused to ride in the car set aside for african americans.

Sojourner Truth
- Born into slavery in Ulster County New York.
-The Narritive of Sojourner Truth was published in 1850
-In 1827 Truth fled Dumont's farm and became a runaway.

Tiger Woods
- He is a professional golfer
-Born on December 30 1975 in Orlando, Florida.
-1999 he kept his tittle at the PGA.

W.E.B Du Bois
-Born Febuary 23,1868.
- In 1891 Du Bois earned his master degree of arts and in 1895 his doctorate in history from Harverd.
-In 1905 he became a founder and a general secretary of the niagara movement.

Maya Angelou
- She was a writer,poet,performer and director.
- Born April 4,1928 in St. Louis, Missouri.
-She was raped and her rapist was found dead in an alley because her uncles had beaten him to death and she had stopped talking all together.

Ralph Bunche
-Highest American offical in the United Nation.
-Born in Detroit, Michigan on August 7,1904.
-Earned master degree at Harvard University.

Roy Wilkins
- Born August 30, 1901
- Role in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- Degree in Socialology.

Mathew Gaines
- Slave, community leader, minister, republican state senator.
-August 4, 1840.
- Caught several times running away and got to Wasington County and became a minister.

Virgina Hamilton
-Wrote 41 books and was an award winner.
- Grew up in yellow springs Ohio.
-Died of Breast cancer in 2002.

Quincy Jones
-Born on Southside Chicago.
- He always had a strong love for music and set his mind at playing the trumpet.
- Quincy settled in Paris to sudy is compsion.

Derek Walcott
- Born January 23,1930.
-Poet playwritter and visual artist.
-He wrote the poem Midsummer.

Mae C. Jemson
- First African American woman to go to space.
- Graduated at age 16.
- Stanford Univerity.

Oprah
-Jnury 29, 1954 in Mississippi.
-Highest talk show host in Syndication.
- First African American to be a billionare.

-Davis, Benjamin Oliver
-1877-1970 American General.
- Lieutenant in Spanish American War.
- Retired in 1948