For Black History Month, I am creating a series of cards for students to match famous people to their accomplishments. There will be four sets of famous Black History Month People. This set features activists. Students will learn details about 6 people who have made an impact in history.
Download the printable Black History Month People – The Activists here.
You can collect all four sets:
Black History Scoot Activity
Playing Scoot turns using a set of task cards into a game.
Grab the materials needed to play Scoot with the Black History Month Cards here.
Each week a new set of cards will be offered. This set features the following activists:
Rosa Parks
On November 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, this person refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus. Police fined and arrested her. This action prompted a city-wide bus boycott that was settled when the Supreme Court ruled segregation on buses unconstitutional.
Ruby Bridges
This schoolgirl was the first to attend the newly desegregated public school. Four federal marshals escorted her to school on her first day of first grade. There she became a class of one as no other students were willing to attend class with her.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Born in 1929, this man became a worker for racial equality. During the 1950s, he participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other peaceful demonstrations. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Thurgood Marshall
This man was the first African American justice of the US Supreme Court. After the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) trial, the “separate but equal” doctrine in public education was overthrown.
Marcus Garvey
He moved from his home in Jamaica to London to study law There he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. In 1916, he moved to New York City and opened a branch in Harlem. His newspaper, Negro World, brought him millions of followers.
Booker T. Washington
Born a slave in 1856, this boy worked his way through school after the Civil War. In 1881, he organized the Tuskegee Institute, a school for African Americans. He became a spokesman for black America and organized the National Negro Business League.
Three versions of these cards are offered: one with blanks for students to write their own sentences; one with the sentences provided but with blank spaces for students to write in keywords; and one with the answers provided. The third copy of the organizer may be used as an answer key, for differentiated instruction, for students who were absent during instruction, or if you wish for the students to have the sentences already completed.
Download the printable Black History Activists here.
You can collect all four sets:
Black History Scoot Activity
Playing Scoot turns using a set of task cards into a game.
Grab the materials needed to play Scoot with the Black History Month Cards here.
If you need additional materials on activists, you may wish to take a look at this Civil Rights and Vietnam Lap Book on Teachers Pay Teachers:
