https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth Add resources, your own experiences, and learn here! en-us 2020-12-10 19:51:30 UTC 2025-09-27 14:29:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f31f.png smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1102844444 2021-01-19 18:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1102844444 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1102935266 2021-01-19 19:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1102935266 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1103152226 Check out the PBS site: Georgia Stories: Black History Collection]]> 2021-01-19 19:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1103152226 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1103165771 2021-01-19 19:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1103165771 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1103166403 2021-01-19 19:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1103166403 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1103173609 2021-01-19 19:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1103173609 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1105665452 Take a virtual tour of the King Center in Atlanta]]> 2021-01-20 13:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1105665452 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1132426166 Teenage social activist behind #1000BlackGirlBooks, an international movement to collect and donate children's books that feature Black girls as the lead character]]> 2021-01-27 16:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1132426166 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1132430444 A changemaker is someone who takes creative actions to solve or bring attention to a problem. Change makers could be inventors, artists, politicians, authors, musicians, teachers, adults, or children! Who is someone that you think has created positive change?]]> 2021-01-27 16:22:58 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1132430444 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1132457266 2021-01-27 16:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1132457266 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1132458017 Is there an artist, musician, actor, writer, influencer you want to share in honor of Black History Month? This person could be from 100 years ago or famous today!]]> 2021-01-27 16:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1132458017 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1132466224 What books would you recommend people read during Black History Month?]]> 2021-01-27 16:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1132466224 schumacherm1 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1139101125 Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was a playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago.

]]> 2021-01-29 01:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1139101125 schumacherm1 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1139120394 James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

]]> 2021-01-29 01:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1139120394 schumacherm1 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1139124500 2021-01-29 01:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1139124500 schumacherm1 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1139134422 13-year-old activist, philanthropist, and “future president” Mari Copeny is on the front lines helping kids to embrace their power through equal opportunity. When the Flint Water Crisis began in Flint instead of feeling helpless Mari decided to use her voice to help out her community and to fight for the kids in Flint and she has not stopped since. Since then she has expanded her effort to help communities across the nation dealing with toxic water. ]]> 2021-01-29 01:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1139134422 tetreault https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140485177 Some of Atlanta's own contribute musically.  https://www.npr.org/series/5228533/a-musical-black-history-month]]> 2021-01-29 13:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140485177 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140566162 Add it below!]]> 2021-01-29 13:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140566162 tetreault https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140570672 2021-01-29 13:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140570672 banec https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140575375 "Chadwick Boseman was an inspiration for a whole generation. We are excited to have some of that reflected here at Trilith."]]> 2021-01-29 13:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140575375 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140688375 2021-01-29 14:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140688375 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140694242 2021-01-29 14:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140694242 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140700164 2021-01-29 14:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140700164 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140817789 by Claude Brown

About Claude Brown - Claude Brown was born in New York City and grew up in Harlem. At age seventeen, after serving several terms in reform school, he left Harlem for Greenwich Village. He went on to receive a bachelor's degree from Howard University and attended law school. He also wrote a book called The Children of Ham in 1976. Manchild in the Promised Land evolved from an article he published in Dissent magazine during his first year at college. He died in 2002 at the age of 64.]]> 2021-01-29 14:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140817789 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140885263 Trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and actor - influential figure in jazz.]]> 2021-01-29 14:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140885263 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140907824 2021-01-29 14:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1140907824 2000139157 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141005028 2021-01-29 15:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141005028 203380574 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141014740 2021-01-29 15:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141014740 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141026844 2021-01-29 15:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141026844 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141028754 2021-01-29 15:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141028754 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141033363 2021-01-29 15:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141033363 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141302059 Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.]]> 2021-01-29 16:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1141302059 2000090870 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1142383132 American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work.]]> 2021-01-29 20:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1142383132 2000156815 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1142652945 2021-01-29 22:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1142652945 2000156815 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1142655542 Fredrick Douglass
Rosa Parks
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Just to name a few!]]> 2021-01-29 22:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1142655542 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1149190007 Check out these must read books!]]> 2021-02-01 15:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1149190007 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1150938885 Maya Angelou won several awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Grammy, and more!]]> 2021-02-01 20:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1150938885 smithjh11 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1150942805 Click the plus sign to add them!]]> 2021-02-01 20:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1150942805 jonesjc1 https://padlet.com/smithjh11/blackhistorymonth/wish/1154338745 https://www.epicreads.com/blog/black-history-month/

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