| Black History 101 |
DIRECTIONS: Read each clue. Each clue tells about a famous black American on the list below. Use the list to connect to a short biography of each person. On the line next to each clue, write the name of the person that the clue tells about.
Jackie Robinson | http://www.jackierobinson.org/aboutjackie/index03.htm |
Mae Jemison | http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/TODTWD/jemison.bio.html |
Harriet Tubman | http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/tubman/ |
Sojourner Truth | http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm |
Booker T. Washington | http://infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0851531.html |
Rosa Parks | http://parks.sandi.net/Pages/parks.html |
Jesse Owens | http://www.jesseowens.com/jobio2.html |
Thurgood Marshall | http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0831961.html |
George Washington Carver | http://www.kulturezone.com/kidz/abc/gwcarver.html |
Frederick Douglass | http://www.kulturezone.com/kidz/abc/frederick.html |
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