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.
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
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.