02-03-2009 Black History PowerPoint.ppt

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MOTIVATING
YOUNG PEOPLE FOR
SUCCESS
7th Annual
Black History Gala

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7th Annual
Black History Gala
Gold Sponsor

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7th Annual
Black History Gala
Gold Sponsor
Commissioner
Tiffany Moore
Russell
District 6

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7th Annual
Black History Gala
Gold Sponsor
Edyth Bush
Charitable
Foundation

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BHCOC Members
The Black History
Committee Of
Orange County, Inc.

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Mission
Educate the citizens of Orlando/
Orange County and America about
Black history, which is a vital
source of American history

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Mission
improving dialogue as it pertains
to the contributions African-
Americans have made to this
community
The BHCOC is committed to

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Mission
The BHCOC is also committed to
improving literacy in our community by
donating funds to students who wish to
continue their education by obtaining
graduate and undergraduate degrees

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I would like to express my sincere
thanks and appreciation for the
pledge payment of $10,000 that the
Black History Committee of Orange
County, Inc. has made to the
students at the University of Central
Florida on April 3, 2007

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The Black History Committee has donated
over $100,000 to local schools, colleges
Universities in Orlando and the State of
Florida.
Pineloch Elementary, Valencia Community
College, University of Central Florida,
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical
University, Bethune Cookman University
Edward Waters University, Florida Memorial
University, Miles College and more.

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2008 Challenge
While most of us know
President Obama as
the intelligent,
thoughtful speaker
who can bring people
together,
his best friend from
CSI: NY Hill Harper
can give us insight
about who he really is.

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Hill Harper is the Key keynote speaker for the 2009 Black
History Banquet to be held at the Rosen Center Orlando. Hill
said Barack and I were classmates at Harvard and he's just a
great guy," Harper told Hollyscoop exclusively at the SLS
Hotel Grand opening in Los Angeles.

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We Thank you
So much for
All your support
Our sponsors and the Board of
County Commissioners help the BHCOC
make a difference in the community.

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Heroes Past & Present
Celebrating our Legacy
Reflectionof our African
American History
Frederick
Douglas
Harriett
Tubman

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AmericanHistory
Sojourner Truth (self-given name)
Born Isabella Baumfree
1797 - 1883
“ Nobody ever helps me into carriages,
or over mud-puddles, or gives me and
best place! And ain't I a woman?“

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AmericanHistory
Booker T. Washington
1856-1915
Founder of Tuskegee
Normal School in Alabama
(now Tuskegee University

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AmericanHistory
Edmond DEDE
1827-1901
African American Creole composer,
violinist and conductor who belonged
to the Negro Philharmonic in his
native New Orleans.

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AmericanHistory
George Washington Carver
(1864 -1943)
American scientist, educator, humanitarian,
and former slave. Carver developed
hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet
potatoes, pecans, and soybeans; his
discoveries greatly improved the
agricultural output and the health of
Southern farmers.

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AmericanHistory
Elijah McCoy
1844 - 1929
Inventor with 57 patents
for design of machine equipment

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AmericanHistory
W.E.B. Dubois
1868 -1963
First African American to receive
a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Co-Founder of the NAACP.

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AmericanHistory
Madam C.J. Walker
1867 – 1919
Cosmetic Industry Business Woman

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AmericanHistory
Marcus Garvey
1902 – 1967
Best remembered as
an important proponent
of the Back to Africa
movement, which
encouraged those of
African descent to
return to their ancestral
homelands.

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AmericanHistory
Langston Hughes
Author and Poet
1902 - 1967

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AmericanHistory
Wallace Thurman
1902 - 1932
Writer, Critic & Newsman

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AmericanHistory
Daughter of former slaves,
McLeod Bethune was an educator,
political advisor, and civil rights
leader.
Mary McLeod Bethune
1875 - 1955

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AmericanHistory
Zora Neale Hurston
1891 - 1960

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AmericanHistory

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AmericanHistory
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong
1900 - 1971

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AmericanHistory
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
1877-1968
Artist

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AmericanHistory
Aaron Douglas
1899 - 1979
Father of Black American Art

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AmericanHistory
August Savage
1892 - 1964
Artist

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AmericanHistory
First African-
American to have
his own symphony
performed and first
to have an opera
on national TV.
William Grant
Still
1895 -1978

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AmericanHistory
Distinguished jazz
musicians of the
latter half of the
20th century.

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AmericanHistory
Jesse Owens
1913 - 1980
Owens broke three world records
and tied a fourth, all in a 70 minute
span. Jesse Owens overcame
segregation, racism and bigotry to
prove to the world that African-
Americans belonged in the world
of athletics.

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AmericanHistory
Rosa Parks
1913 - 2005

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AmericanHistory
Thurgood Marshall
1908 - 1993
NAACP attorney
Thurgood Marshall,
Was the nations first
Black Justice.
Winning Brown v.
Board of Education of
Topeka, Kans.,
segregation in public
schools was
Found to be
unconstitutional.

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AmericanHistory
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 -1968
National leader of the civil rights
movement, leading boycotts and
staging protests against
segregation in the South.

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AmericanHistory
Coretta Scott King
1927 - 2006
A social reformer and a
symbol, in her own right,
of her husband's struggle
for peace and brotherhood.

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AmericanHistory
Malcolm X
1925 - 1965
Malcolm X was born
Malcolm Little on
May 19, 1925 in
Omaha, Nebraska.
A born leader
Intelligent and
articulate, Malcolm
became a minister
and national
spokesman for the Nation
of Islam.

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AmericanHistory
Rev. Jesse Jackson
(born Jesse Louis Burns)
Born 1941

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AmericanHistory
American singer,
songwriter and
jazz pianist.
Nat King Cole
(Born Nathanial Adams Coles)
1919 – 1995

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AmericanHistory
James Earl Jones
1931
An American Emmy
and Tony Award
Winning actor of film
and stage, perhaps
best known for his
deep baritone voice.

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AmericanHistory
The comedian broke many
barriers for black performers
during his heyday in the 1970s
and 1980s, becoming one of
the highest-paid actors in
Hollywood. Comedy Central
voted him the top standup
comedian of all time.
Richard Pryor
1940 - 2005

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AmericanHistory
William Henry “Bill” Cosby, Jr.
1937
American actor,
comedian, television
producer and activist.

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AmericanHistory
Edward Regan “Eddie” Murphy’
1961 Golden Globe winning,
Grammy Award-winning,
Screen Actors Guild-winning
and Academy Award-
nominated
American actor and
comedian

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AmericanHistory
James Brown
1933 - 2006
The Godfather of Soul

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AmericanHistory
Jack Roosevelt “Jackie”
Robinson’
1919 - 1972

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AmericanHistory
Henry Louis “ Hank ”
Aaron’
1934
Retired baseball player
and record-setting member
of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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AmericanHistory
Musician & Performer
The Genius of Soul!
Raymond Charles Robinson
“ Ray Charles ‘
1930 - 2004

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AmericanHistory
Stevie Wonder
Born Stevland Hardaway Judkins
1950
singer, songwriter,
record producer,
musical and social
activist.

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AmericanHistory
Stephanie Natalie Maria Cole
1950
Grammy-Award
American
Singer and songwriter.

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AmericanHistory
Morgan Freeman
1937
Academy Award-winning
American actor, film director and narrator.

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AmericanHistory
American musician, entertainer and
pop icon.
Michael Joseph Jackson
1958

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AmericanHistory
Willard Christopher
"Will" Smith, Jr.
1968
Academy Award
and Golden
Globe
nominated
American
actor and
multiple
Grammy winning
hip
hop artist.

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AmericanHistory
Academy Award-
winning American actor
and director
Denzel Jermaine Washington, Jr.
1957

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AmericanHistory
The McNair Crater on the
Moon is named in his honor.
NASA Mission Specialist
killed during the launch
of the Space Shuttle
Challenger.
Ronald Erwin McNair, Ph.D.
1950 - 1986

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AmericanHistory
FIRST African-American female
to go to space. Chemical engineer,
scientist, physician, teacher and
astronaut, speaks fluent Russian,
Japanese, and Swahili, as well as
English and is trained in dance
and choreography.
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison
1956

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AmericanHistory
Michael Jordan
1963
One of the greatest
basketball players of
all time, he became
the most effectively
marketed athlete of
his generation.

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American History
Rice is the first African American
woman, second African American
and second woman to serve as
Secretary of State.
Condoleezza Rice
1954

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American History
A native of Cat Island,
the Bahamas, (though
born in Miami during a
mainland visit by his
parents), Poitier grew up
in poverty as the son of a
dirt farmer.
He became one of the most
represented actors on the
American Film Institute's
100 most inspiring movies
of all time, with five of
his films on the list.
Sidney Poitier
February 20 1927

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American History
Halle Maria Berry
August 14, 1966
She is one of the
highest-paid actresses
in Hollywood and also a
Revlon spokeswoman.
Before becoming an actress, Berry
entered several beauty contests, finishing
runner-up in Miss USA (1986), and winning
the Miss USA World
1986 contest.. Her breakthrough feature
film role was in the 1991 Jungle Fever.

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American History
Oprah Gail Winfrey
January 29, 1954
Born in rural Mississippi to
a poor unwed teenaged
mother, and later raised in
a Milwaukee ghetto,
Winfrey was raped at the
age of nine, and at
fourteen, gave birth to a
son who died in infancy.
She is thought to have
popularized and revolutionized
the tabloid talk show genre.

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American History
Barack Obama

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We Each Have A
Place In History.
Make The Most Of Yours!

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