https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw In the month of black history, who should people know about, but don't. Choose a person, event, place, etc. and explain why it's important to should know this person for black history month. Provide a photo or gif that connects ot your response. en-us 2021-02-02 16:13:31 UTC 2026-04-18 21:52:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/270a.png jrgeoghegan https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154588455 Claudette Colvin. Some people know her but they rarely talk about her in school. They mainly talk about Rosa Parks although Claudette did the same thing Rosa did before her.]]> 2021-02-02 16:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154588455 https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154629637 Ota Benga,is a boy who wassold to slavery because his tribe was killed off and he was the only one left.By ship they took him to Bronx zoo and they put him with the monkeys.White folks made fun of badly and laughed at him.Racist white folk from everywhere came to see him in his exhibit.Sense he was only 12 and did not speak there language he didn't know what the cruel people were saying.]]> 2021-02-02 16:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154629637 AmilxHightower https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154639573 I'm not sure tbh.]]> 2021-02-02 16:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154639573 gtrichardson1 https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154644035 We should notice Carter G. Woodson. He is the one who created black history month. He is known as the father of black history. 
 ]]> 2021-02-02 16:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154644035 cmflint https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154647754 Ethel Waters was the first black woman to have her own tv show and nominated for the first emmy ]]> 2021-02-02 16:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154647754 jlmoss11 https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154649751 In school we never learned about her so I honestly don't know. Also you don't really talk or hear about her.]]> 2021-02-02 16:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154649751 mghill4 https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154653857 2021-02-02 16:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154653857 https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154653977 Annie Easley was one of four African Americans of about 2500 employees that worked  as a mathematician and computer engineer at the NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory.

]]> 2021-02-02 16:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154653977 https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154655950 In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, was one of the most prosperous African-American communities in the United States. A newspaper article reported that a black man named Dick Rowland attempted to rape a white woman. They refused to wait out the investigation. The whole block went up in flames and 300 people died, 800 injured. ]]> 2021-02-02 16:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154655950 jyoung342 https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154660716 The first black woman army nurse. Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse. She tended to an all Black army regiment named the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, later redesignated the 33rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment, where her husband served, for four years during the Civil War.]]> 2021-02-02 16:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154660716 wvweaver https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154663396 Benjamin was a mathematician and Astronomer. He wrote almanacs and surveyed Washington D.C. ]]> 2021-02-02 16:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154663396 JaiyaTurner https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154668717 Fannie Lou Hamer.  A voting rights advocate, Fannie Lou Hamer was fired from her job for trying to register to vote and was nearly beaten to death by police. This did not stop her, however, from helping to organize Mississippi’s Freedom Summer. She also became vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party that attended the 1964 Democratic Convention in an attempt to challenge the all-white, anti-Civil Rights official delegation. Her speech to the credentials committee was carried to many parts of the country and led to more widespread support for the cause.]]> 2021-02-02 16:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154668717 rboyd101 https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154669926 Ruby Bridges! It's not recognition that she lacks, but people don't typically talk about how many waves she made when it comes to]]> 2021-02-02 16:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154669926 mariamtandia https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154682616 Bayard Rustin was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. ]]> 2021-02-02 16:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/ciy0wfgaa6o23arw/wish/1154682616