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Famous Men in Black History Educational Posters & Prints
for social studies classrooms, home schoolers to celebrate Black History Month in February.
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social studies > history > Black History Index > Famous Black Men posters
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Selection of notable and famous men in Black and African American history posters include composite posters ‘Civil Rights Leaders’, ‘Black History’, musicians and entertainers, heros and heroines, artists, innovators, athletes and African inspired art.
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The Man I AM
The path I walk
was made for me
with grains of faith
for sand ...
Because of those
who paved the way -
I am free to walk this land.
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The Harlem Renaissance poster documents many of the most notable personalities in the movement that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and early 1930s marked an uprecedented period of expression in music, literature, art, politics and economics. Never before had America seen such a rich explosion of black culture.
• New York posters
• more Harlem Renaissance posters
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Harlem Renaissance Culture Guide Poster Map
One Hundred Years of History, Art, and Culture
Poster map guide shows the homes, nightclubs, and churches linked with Harlem’s writers, artists, musicians, thinkers, and political leaders of the 1920s.
The back of the poster map provides addresses and an easy walking guide.
• more Culture Map posters
• who is in this poster?
• more maps
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Richard Berry Harrison
b. 9-28-1864; London, Ontario, Canada
d. 3-14-1935, NYC
Richard Berry Harrison, a noted actor, teacher and lecturer was the son of slaves who escaped to Canada on the Underground Railroad. His mother named her first born Richard after seeing Shakespeare's Richard III. Harrison's most remembered role was of “de Lawd” in more than 1,650 performances of Marc Connelly’s 1931 Pulitzer winning play, The Green Pastures.
Harrison was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1930.
• Shakespeare posters
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
b. 11-29-1908; New Haven, CT
d. 4-4-1972; Miami, FL
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. represented Harlem, New York, in the US House of Representatives 1945-1971. This photographic print from LIFE magazine archives first appeared 10-30-1964.
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Medgar Evers
b. 7-2-1925; Decatur, MS
d. 6-12-1963; Jackson, MS
Medgar Evers, an African American civil rights activist was shot and killed June 12, 1963.
In 1994 Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the murder; two previous trials with all white jurys ended in mistrials.
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The Struggle for Civil Rights 1865 - 1920 Poster
The end of the Civil War brought freedom and hope to former slaves throughout the South. No longer would they live in chains and in fear of their master's whips. But for far too many former slaves this joy did not last long. The chains and whips were soon replaced by less noticable but equally demeaning forms of oppression. Most blacks continued to work in the fields of white landowners. ...
• more Civil Rights posters
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