Mari Copeny

Mari Copeny

Born on July 6, 2007, in Flint, Michigan.  At the age of 8 she became an an activist at her home town Flint, Michigan. Which she has been fighting a life-threatening water crisis since April 2014. Mari Copeny wrote a letter to President Barack Obama, challenging him to come to her hometown and bear witness to the crisis she and her community faced. She is known for being a young activist and a proof that you’re never too young to be an activist. She said that lots of children like her are getting sick because of the high level of bacteria in their water. Seven months later President Barack Obama funded $100 million to repair Flint’s water system. She has sent out more than over 700,000 water bottles to local families.  Mari says that she believes that skills she’s been developing are getting her ready for the presidency that she has been planning to seek in 2044. The event was very successful and Mari helped over 1,000 Flints student and help them go back to school with the enough supplies they needed.

Moses Walker

Moses Walker is the first baseball African American baseball player. He started playing in the big leagues in the nineteenth century. His nickname was Fleet. There was a contest that was in Louisville but some people didn’t want to play a black person. Most people didn't hide that he was not going to be happy their. Moses didn’t let them get under his skin and played 42 games until he got injured. He played for the Toledos. Moses’s position was a catcher. He was born in 1857 on October 7th. Moses did get paid.He wanted to play baseball even though he knew he was not allowed. He stood up for all people to be able to play baseball. Now anyone can play baseball. One say 3 white men tried to attack Moses so he stabbed one of them, he was sent to court and after was proved guilty and got sent to jail. He was in jail for a year. Moses had 5 other brothers and sisters. Later Moses had three children of his own. Sometimes when Moses would walk out on the field fans would yell mean things and call him names. I picked picked Moses walker because I think it is very hard  to go against the crowd, but did so he could do what he loves.

Lucille Hunter

Black History Month

Lucille Hunter

Lucille hunter was one of the first black women to live in Yukon Territory. When only nineteen she was pregnant and had a Husam named Charles They left Michigan to go to Yukon to start a new life. The Hunters traveled west and stop in Teslin lake to deliver her baby daughter. They named her Teslin after when she was born. After they moved by dogsled to Yukon in February 1898 The family settled outside of Dawson at Bonanza Creek. Lucille helps Charles big for gold while she was carrying baby Teslin. As both black women, Lucille and Teslin were rarely sighted by white people. Where she was living there were estimated to be 3000 white people and only 99 black people. The family later staked claims in silver in Mayo. After Charles died in 1939. In 1942, she moved to Whitehorse and opened a laundry tent. Despite her declining eyesight and eventually becoming blind, Lucille stayed fiercely independent by living in a small clapboard house. Eventually, her house burned down; however, she recovered from her burns and lived in a basement apartment for several more years until she broke her hip.  Spending the rest of her time in a hospital, she died in 1973 at age 94. Being one of the first black women in Yukon.

Donavan bailey

Donavan bailey I picked this person because of I that it was really cool  click the link below to learn more

Donovan Bailey

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, in the countryside of Mississippi. Her career started as a journalist in 1971 when she registered to a college in Tennessee! When Oprah was in her early twenties she joined her college radio station. A few years later she was the first black women TV reporter in Nashville. When she graduated college, she moved to Baltimore Maryland to host her first talk show at the age of twenty-four! When she started the talk show she was criticized for her energetic presence on the show. But in 1983 she became the host of a thirty-minute talk show in Chicago, Illinois. When Oprah showed her real personality her talk show earned a higher ranking. When Oprah was thirty-two the Oprah Winfrey show made its national debut and made her the first black woman to host a syndicated talk show. Oprah wanted to discuss on the talk show the issues that have not been discussed in anyways. In one of Oprah’s shows, she revealed that she was a survivor of abuse since the age of nine! Using her own experience she used her experience to raise awareness and give people that survived this horrible thing a voice. She also used her talk show to take action for kids everywhere. In 1993 she became the main voice Of the national children protection act, also known as “the Oprah bill”.

Rosa Parks

Jahmani Swanson

Jahmani Swanson Is the person who I chose to do for black history month and click the link below for more information.


Jahmani Swanson