Who do you think was the most influential African American in American history and tell why? Be sure to discuss what your selected hero did to improve our society. Give the dates of the persons life span.
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Tommy Rogers
ReplyDeleteI believe that Dr. Martin Luther King jr. was the biggest influential African American in American history. Reasons why because he gave out speeches that had affect on everybody even whites that all men are created equal. He also gave out the greatest speech in all time "I had a dream".He approve every Race in America to be equal. (1929)-(1968).
I think it have to be Malcolm Little. Malcolm went on several speaking tours and helped establish several new mosques. He was eventually assigned to be minister of the mosque in New York's Harlem area. Founder and editor of Muhammad Speaks, Malcolm rejected integration and racial equality and instead advocated black power.
ReplyDeleteHe improve by rejected his former separatist beliefs and advocated world brotherhood. Malcolm now blamed racism on Western culture and urged African Americans to join with sympathetic whites to bring to an end.
Malcolm Little, the son of an African American Baptist preacher, Earl Little, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on 19th May, 1925. Malcolm's mother, Louise Little, was born in the West Indies. Her mother was black but her father was a white man.
WHO DO I'D THINK OF WHO WAS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICAN IN AMERICAN HISTORY WAS BY THE NAME OF JACKIE ROBINSON.THE REASON WHY I CHOOSE JACKIE ROBINSON IS BECAUSE HE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO PLAY IN A MAJORS OF BASEBALL AND HE PLAYED FOR THE BROOKLYN DODGERS & THE LOS ANGELOS DODGERS.ONE OF THE REASON WHY I SELECTED JACKIE ROBINSON TO BE MY HERO BECAUSE EVERY SINCE HE BROKED THAT MOMENT IN 1948 FOR BEING THAT FIRST AFRICAN MALE TO BE THE FIRST IN THE MAJORS IT REALLY BRONG OTHERS AFRICAN FAMOUS PLAYERS TO DO THE SAME SUCH AS JOSH GIBSON, WILLIE MAYS,LeROY "SATCHEL PAIGE,AND INCLUDING ALOT MORE EVEN UNTIL THIS VERY DAY.
ReplyDeleteBorn: Jan. 31, 1919 in Cairo, GA
Died: Oct. 24, 1972 in Stamford, CT
Years with Dodgers: 1947-56
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 1962.
Born: Jan. 31, 1919 in Cairo, GA
Died: Oct. 24, 1972 in Stamford, CT
Years with Dodgers: 1947-56
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 1962
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ReplyDeleteMartin Luther King Jr. was one of most influentail African American in history. He help blacks from segragation and miss treatment. He went out in the world and told why blacks should be treated equally as whites. He never stop when he got in jail he just kept on going, had people following him with actions. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968)
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion I think that Martin Luther King Jr. is the most influential african american in american history because he helped us get free from not talking to white people and not we can talk to them and use the same things as them and go to the same school etc.
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Martin L. King becacuse,he did he's best to help and successed. He stopped and changed a lot of things that we wonted be able to do now. He was killed at a hotel in the soutern american states it was in Georgia. He was standing up for black peoples rights and he changed how white people tought about black people. He was born Jan.15,1929 and died 1960's.
ReplyDeletethe person that is important to me is harriet tubman. she is important to me because she found away to be free. Shes very courageous for that. I like that about because you have to stand up for your rights. the under ground railroad helped alot get set free. i look up to her.
ReplyDeleteHarriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1820 – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the U.S. Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves[1] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.
Christopher Turner
ReplyDeleteGilpin, Charles Sidney (1878-1930)
Gilpin showed great promise early on as a singer appearing in amateur theatricals in Richmond. He went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the early 1890s, where he worked briefly for the Philadelphia Standard, but was let go after some employees complained about working with a Negro.
Thereafter, he worked permanently as a performer, touring with several traveling minstrel and vaudeville shows between 1896 and 1904. In 1903, for example, Gilpin joined Hamilton, Ontario’s Canadian Jubilee Singers. He also performed with Gus Hill's Smart Set for one season (1904-05), playing Remus Boreland, the mayoral candidate in The Black Politician. In 1906 Gilpin sang with the male chorus in Bert Williams and George Walker's Abyssinia on Broadway and on tour. After the tour, Gilpin founded the Pekin Stock Company at Robert T. Motts’s famed Pekin Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
Charles Sidney Gilpin was an influential African American in my opinion, Sense I wanna become a rapper I would say him and a lot of others open plenty doors for someone like me. He was 52 years old when he died (1878-1930).
I think Jesse Owens is the most influential person.He was an African American Olympic runner who improved human relations also he won 4 gold olympic medals in a single day. He impover relationship between people jesseowons 1913-1918
ReplyDeleteDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a vital figure of the modern era. His lectures and dialogues stirred the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation. The movements and marches he led brought significant changes in the fabric of American life through his courage and selfless devotion. This devotion gave direction to thirteen years of civil rights activities. His charismatic leadership inspired men and women, young and old, in this nation and around the world. He lived from 1929 to 1968 and will always be remembered as a influential person.
ReplyDeleteI think that Martin Luther King Jr. was the most influential person in African American History. He's a powerful speaker and a man of great spiritual powers.He also shaped the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King was pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to win the Nobel Peace Prize.He was a very strong and positive person in not only his community but in the history of the world.
ReplyDeleteIn recognition of Black History Month, The Flint Journal will feature some of the area's most influential leaders in the black community African-Americans -- and not just those in high profile jobs. We also want to highlight those everyday people who make their corner of Genesee County a better place.
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Include the person you are nominating's name, title, place of business and hometown as well as a sentence or two about why you've nominated them as a leader.
Antonio Terrell
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ReplyDeleteI think one of the most influential African American is Madam C.J Walker. She invented something I really need. If it wasn’t for perms I don’t know where I would be. Madam Walker was an entrepreneur who built her empire developing hair products for black women. She claims to have built her company on an actual dream where a large black man appeared to her and gave her a formula for curing baldness. When confronted with the idea that she was trying to conform black women's hair to that of whites, she stressed that her products were simply an attempt to help black women take proper care of their hair and promote its growth. She was married.
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ReplyDeleteThe most influential African American in history will have to be Martin Luther King Jr. He was a civil rights activist that wanted to promote peace. I selected this hero because he was a non violent protester, that wanted to end racial segregation. He improved our city by ending racism for the most part. He was born January 15, 1929 and died April 4, 1968.
ReplyDeleteI think MLK is the most influenctial person because as a black manm he stood up for what he beleved in. He went to jail to freeslaves, and he died for what he believe in. MLK was an leader to the society.
ReplyDeletei feel tht Barack obama is the most influential person in my life right now. the reasons is that he did something that people like black's thought they would never see in there life time. the person that picked helped are society by makeing blacks feel that they could be come anything they want to be.
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther King Jr. he is regarded mainly as the black leader of a movement for black equality. He lived from 1929 to 1968.
ReplyDeleteAll because of him there are al lot of young new players in the leage
ReplyDeleteFrederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895)
ReplyDeleteI chose this particular person because I fill that he was a good and well respected person.
Who do you think was the most influential African American in American history and tell why? Be sure to discuss what your selected hero did to improve our society. Give the dates of the persons life span.
ReplyDeletedr martin luther king because he tryed to stop the racism and every thing else he was a good example for alot of stuff that was going on back then by him being a black leader people still look up to him til this day
micheal jordan is the one who change the way of nba and united states.
ReplyDeletematin kuther king jr was the man of black history month an he made things happen for us cause if he had anything to say then he will tell us cause if he said he was going to make it happen he made it happen
ReplyDeleteI feel that Martin Luther King was the most influential African American.
ReplyDeleteI say this because if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be siitting here today and I wouldn't be allowed to go to any school of choice.
i think it would be Micheal jordan.
ReplyDeleteWHO DO I'D THINK OF WHO WAS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICAN IN AMERICAN HISTORY WAS BY THE NAME OF JACKIE ROBINSON.THE REASON WHY I CHOOSE JACKIE ROBINSON IS BECAUSE HE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO PLAY IN A MAJORS OF BASEBALL AND HE PLAYED FOR THE BROOKLYN DODGERS & THE LOS ANGELOS DODGERS.ONE OF THE REASON WHY I SELECTED JACKIE ROBINSON TO BE MY HERO BECAUSE EVERY SINCE HE BROKED THAT MOMENT IN 1948 FOR BEING THAT FIRST AFRICAN MALE TO BE THE FIRST IN THE MAJORS IT REALLY BRONG OTHERS AFRICAN FAMOUS PLAYERS TO DO THE SAME SUCH AS JOSH GIBSON, WILLIE MAYS,LeROY "SATCHEL PAIGE,AND INCLUDING ALOT MORE EVEN UNTIL THIS VERY DAY.
ReplyDeleteBorn: Jan. 31, 1919 in Cairo, GA
Died: Oct. 24, 1972 in Stamford, CT
Years with Dodgers: 1947-56
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 1962.
Born: Jan. 31, 1919 in Cairo, GA
Died: Oct. 24, 1972 in Stamford, CT
Years with Dodgers: 1947-56
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 1962
February 17, 2009 5:22 AM
I think that the most influential African American in American history is Martin Luther King Jr. I think that he was most influential because he helped change our country for the better. He helped to end segregation and he tried to bring the races together. Martin luther King Jr was born on January 15, 1929 and died on April 4, 1968.
ReplyDeleteI think it have to be Malcolm Little. Malcolm went on several speaking tours and helped establish several new mosques. He was eventually assigned to be minister of the mosque in New York's Harlem area. Founder and editor of Muhammad Speaks, Malcolm rejected integration and racial equality and instead advocated black power.
ReplyDeleteHe improve by rejected his former separatist beliefs and advocated world brotherhood. Malcolm now blamed racism on Western culture and urged African Americans to join with sympathetic whites to bring to an end.
Malcolm Little, the son of an African American Baptist preacher, Earl Little, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on 19th May, 1925. Malcolm's mother, Louise Little, was born in the West Indies. Her mother was black but her father was a white man.
I think that Rosa Parks was the bigest influential of american history because she would not give up her seat to a white man and they took her to jail. and thats what stared the boy coat and all the black people stoped riding the bas.
ReplyDeleteThe most influential African American in America History is BARACK OBAMA because he showed us the way to life and made us see that life is more than what you would exspect.
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