| A | B |
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| Barack Obama | first African American president |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | prominent civil rights leader who wrote the memorable 'I Have a Dream Speech' |
| Harriet Tubman | led many slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad |
| Rosa Parks | refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man |
| Jackie Robinson | first African American to play in the previously whites only Major Baseball League |
| George Washington Carver | former slave who was a great scholar, teacher, and scientist. He discovered how to use and make many peanut products, including peanut butter |
| Frederick Douglass | major black rights activist working to help free slaves; he then became a high ranking member of the government and was the first African American elected to such a prominent status |
| Black History Month | The month of February |
