Maurer 4

Born, August 4, 1961 in Honolulu. He graduated from Columbia University. Also, earned a Law degree at Harvard!

__________ is an agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts (but not peanut butter, as is often claimed), sweet potatoes and soybeans.

• Carter G. Woodson

• Blanche Armwood

• Ernest E. Just

• George Washington Carver

Born in 1927 in Baltimore, Maryland. ______ loved to read. She read all kinds of books about all kinds of characters. But none of the characters looked like her. When she grew up, she went to college. She became a children’s librarian. After that, she became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She taught others about children’s books and libraries. _______wanted to write stories about African American families.

First black coach to win a Super Bowl

________ became president of the Florida NAACP and in 1976 was the first African American elected to the Hillsborough County School Board, where he served for 16 years

This high school in Seffner was named after ________, a Tampa native and the first African-American woman from Florida to graduate from an accredited law school, Howard University

First American Woman to win three Olympic Gold Medals

• Wilma Rudolph

• Ruby Bridges

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Dorris Reddic

Entrepreneur and inventor of hair care product

In 1992 ________ was elected to the Hillsborough County School Board becoming the first Black woman to hold that position and two years later was unanimously elected as chair and the first Black woman to serve in that capacity. She became the voice for children and minority businesses and under her leadership annual minority business allocations rose from a meager $1,084 to millions.

_________published his first poem in 1921. He attended Columbia University, but left after one year to travel. A leading light of the Harlem Renaissance, ______published his first book in 1926.