People who participated in black history

By:Shanoa Evans

Madame CJ Walker• Madame CJ Walker was

the first African American woman to make her own hair product.

• She started her own business focusing on selling cosmetics and her original creation “Madame Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower” Based on the same formula she used on her own hair.

Harriet Tubman

• After escaping from slavery into which she was born into, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe house know as the Underground Railroad.

• Harriet was also a nurse and teacher to the Gullah people of the sea islands who had been left behind by their owners.

Roberto Clemente• Roberto Clemente Walker

was a professional baseball player and a Major League Baseball right fielder.

• He was involved in charity work in Puerto Rico and other Latin American Countries. Often taking baseball equipment and food to them. He died in a aviation accident on December 31,1972on his way to take aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua

Coretta Scott King

• Coretta Scott King was an Civil Rights leader. She was the widow of martin luther king jr she helped lead the African American civil rights movement in the 1960s. She took part in the women’s rights the LGBT right economic issues and world peace and other various causes