A presentation about famous black celebrities now and then,with activities to work on Black History Month

1. Who are they?

2. Who are they?

3. Who are they?

5. What is the Black History month?
 Remembers about African American
history: what ‘black people’ have done.
 Celebrated once a year in February:
USA, Canada and UK.

6. Activity
 Think of 5 famous black American
people.
 Write their profession.
Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King JR, Malcom
X, Babe Ruth, etc.

7. 1. Origins of inequality White-
Black: Black slaves

8. 2. Abolition of slavery:
 It was put into law in
1862 and 1863 but
was not complete
until 185 when the
13th
Amendment was
ratified.
 About four million
(4,000,000) slaves
were freed.
 I freed most slaves in
the Southern States.

9. Abraham Lincoln
 He was the
president
responsible for
freeing the slaves.
 He put the
Emancipation
Proclamation into
law

10. 3. Segregation

14. Kkk

15. Black power movement

19. Fredrick Douglas
 Abolitionist=A person who
fights against slavery
 "I would unite with anybody
to do right and with nobody
to do wrong.“
-Fredrick Douglas
 He was born in 1818 and
died in 1895
 He was well educated and
wrote books about the bad
situation of African
Americans.

20. Malcolm X
 1925-1965
 Malcolm promoted
black pride and black
power.
 He was like Martin
Luther King Jr. but not
about peaceful protest.
 He criticized whites for
the bad treatment of
Blacks.
 He was assassinated
while giving a speech.

21. Rosa Parks
 1913-2005
 She is known for
refusing to give her
seat to a white man
on a bus.
 This caused the
Montgomery Bus
Boycott and it lasted
a year.

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