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Black History Lessons
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There's so much to do during February that it definitely floods over into other months:
1. Carter Woodson
2. George Washington Bush (1790-1863)
3. Marjorie Pitter King
4. Garrett Augustus Morgan
5. Henry Lewis
6.
George Carruthers
7. Aretha Franklin
8. Jan Matzeliger
9. Horace Cayton
10 Alexa Canady
11 Edwin Pratt
12 CJ Walker
13 Bessie Coleman
14 Emmett Till
15 William Grouse
16 George Grant
17 E. Russell "Noodles" Smith
18 Robert Johnson
19 Sam Smith
20 Juneteenth celebration
21 Bumps Blackwell
22 John Thomas Gayton
23 A Philip Randolph
24

Thomas Jennings
25 Norbert Rillieux
26 Benjamin Bradley
27 Elijah McCoy
28 Lewis Howard Latimer
29 Granville T. Woods
30 Frederick McKinley Jones
31 David Crosthwait, Jr.
32 Martin Luther King, Jr.
and so many many more. Each one is so fascinating and such a good lesson in persistence and self-esteem, working against all odds and education.

Hope you had half as much fun as I did, putting together quizzes about inventions and their inventors, accomplishments, and even the UGRR. The lessons on the messages through quilts just was so inspiring for all of us: students and assistants. We all enjoyed doing the lessons. Hope you do, too!