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Why do we celebrate Black History Month?
• To promote knowledge of black history
• To know our roots• To promote equality• To show us role models
• In the United Kingdom we have celebrated Black History Month every October since 1987.
• There are some excellent events organised each year and in 2011 there will be something like 4,700 Black History Month events across the UK.
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In the past people thought that black people were different.
Mary Seacole
Bessie Coleman
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Who is it?• In the 1936 Olympics he won 4 gold medals in the
100m, 200m, the long jump and the relay. • Hitler did not want to salute him• He was not invited to the White House to shake
hands with the president and when he attended an awards ceremony in a hotel he had to go up in the service elevator and was not allowed to use the front door.
• He campaigned to improve the situation for black people around the world
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James Cleveland Owen- Jesse Owen
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Who is it?
• He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.
• He was active in the movement for civil rights and racial equality.
• He participated in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott and many other peaceful demonstrations that protested the unfair treatment of African-Americans.
• He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. • He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in
Memphis, Tennessee
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Martin Luther King Jr
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Who is it?
• She was born in a very poor home in America. • She had a very tough childhood but managed to
get a job at her local radio station, then became a day-time TV presenter.
• Eventually she launched her own show. • She was the world’s only Black billionaire.• She has also given more money to charity than
any other Black person in the history of America.
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Oprah Winfrey
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Who is it?
• He was born and raised in Birmingham, England, in 1958.
• He has written poems, stories and plays.
• Talking Turkeys, J is for Jamaica.
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Benjamin Zephaniah
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Who is it?
• His father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas.
• He was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961.
• He became President on November 4, 2008
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Barack Hussein Obama 44th President of the United States
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Who is it?
• When he was 9 months old, his dad sawed off a golf club to make it very short so he could strike the ball into the net.
• When he was 18 months old he began going to the golf course with Dad.
• In the year 2000, when he was 24 years old, he won four major golf tournaments: the U.S. Open, and U.S. Amateur and the British Open and British Amateur
• The first African-American/Asian-American
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(Eldrick) Tiger Woods
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Who is it?
• She is a famous actress.• She was the voice Cappy in the film
Robots• She was the first African-American to
win the Best Actress award at the Oscars.
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Halle Berry
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Who is it?
• He’s black• He’s British• He’s a sportsman• He is the first black person in his sport• He is the first black person to win the
big trophy in his sport
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Lewis Hamilton
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Who is your inspiration?
We know of lots of talented black and asian people.