African American history

On Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day (MLK day). If you don't know who Martin Luther King is (which you probably do), then I'll tell you. He was a man who had a dream about Blacks and Whites coming together in peace. His speech, "I Have a Dream", was very very popular. Some people didn't agree with him, while others thought he was amazing.

I totally agree with his message. Another person who was very strong about Blacks and Whites coming together was Rosa Parks, the lady who had tried to sit at the front of the bus with the Whites. She spoke out against all these people, just like MLK.

They are really truly inspiring for standing up to these people who were thinking so arrogantly about themselves. Thinking they were better than other people just because of their skin color. It would be like me saying I hated you and your lower than me because you have red hair. Its so stupid! These people are very brave. Martin Luther King stood up to a lot of people. The whole USA! Monday was a day to recognize his greatness.

Dizzy, from The Harlem Globetrotters, came to our school today and and talked about the Globetrotters motto C.H.E.E.R. Which means cooperation, healthy body and mind, effort, enthusiasm, and responsibility.

After Dizzy left, my class researched the Globetrotters and I found out that the Globetrotters started in 1926.

I was reading about Magic Johnson; he was a great basketball player. He won a lot of games. He was named to the All-NBA team nine times... Isn't that amazing? And he was voted Most Valued player three times. His story is really good; you should read about it. Just click on http://www.biography.com/articles/Magic-Johnson-9356150 and you can go read about him too.

If you are a basketball player or just a fan, then I am sure you will like this guy.

On what we did this week we did some work and some more work. We also did homework, not that much though. It was a fun this week (some week). We had indoor recess (also fun (some fun)). I played on computers all 30 minutes (45 min.).

All I did this week at home this very week of all the weeks was sleep, eat, school, eat & sleep. Like all the other weeks this was the most fun of all, a substitute came into our class. He was okay, fine, defined & great. He was a nice guy.

Today was a great day. It was also kind of short today. I got my work done which is great. To end this short paragraph I will say today is over bye.

Ever heard of a bacon clock? Well I have. Haven't you? Click this link - http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/MoreStories/New-alarm-clock.

Read this story about a kid that designed a clock without a alarm; instead he used the aroma of bacon.

My first pet is a dog named Bingo. I was about six when I got him, and I didn't name him!!! My dog is a male miniature schnauzer.

My dog ran away about twenty times. One time I thought he ran away on the last day before I went to my vacation, but he was in the house.

He is a nice dog, but he is not nice to kids. I taught my dog to sit and come. My dog is my favorite and my first pet. I had other pets ahead of him, but he is the best. I've had him for about nine years now; I wonder how much is that for dog years?

MICHAEL JORDAN

Michael Jordan was one of the most famous basketball players of all time. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. As a freshman at the University of North Carolina, he won the college Championship. He also was the Rookie of the Year. Jordan led the Bulls to three NBA Championships. Also he played baseball for two years in the minor leagues for the Chicago White Socks.

Shaquile O'Neal played in the NBA for Miami Heat and was the rookie of the year. Later in 2008 he was traded to Phoenix sun's and was in films and rap records. He has won 4 championships. I think he was the best in the Miami heat also he should have stayed with the Miami Heat.

MLK, known as Martin Luther King, was a pastor of a church who wanted civil rights for the African-Americans and he started a boycott and went to Washington D.C to give a speech. MLK was a good person and a good leader.

MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His real name was Micheal King Jr. King married Coretta Scott on June 8th, 1953. King had kids named Yolanda King, MLK the third, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King. King became the pastor of a church named Dexter Avenue Baptist Church at the age 25 in 1954, in Montgomery, Alabama. He was assassinated on April 4th 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He won a Nobel Prize in 1964. King is famous because he started a boycott and he wanted civil rights and he went to Washington D.C to give his famous speech called *I Have A Dream* and he was the one to fight for the civil rights for African Americans. So today African Americans have the same rights as White people do.

George Washington Carver

George Carver was the first person to invent peanut butter and over 160 ways to use it. He was born a slave. He went to Iowa State College. then he became a scientist at Tuskegee Institute.

JACKIE ROBINSON

Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in major league baseball. He was named the NL's Most Valuable Player. He played baseball until 1956 with Brooklyn, where he had a reputation for base stealing. Robinson became the first African American to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Barack Hussein Obama 2

Barack Obama is our first black president. That happened when he was inaugurated. He was born on August 4, 1961. He promised to help people with their taxes. He has a lawyers degree from Harvard Law School. Obama had 53% of the vote and McCain had 46%; 1% did not vote. I didn't want Obama to win. I wanted McCain to win.

MUHAMMAD ALI won a gold medal in boxing in 1960. He also won six Kentucky Golden Glove titles. In 1964 he won the the heavyweight championship against Sonny Liston. Ali had a war cry,"Float like a butterfly; sting like a bee." After he beat Sonny Liston and won the championship of the world at the age of 22, Ali knew that he was something above and beyond the great boxer because he knew that Sonny Liston was also a great boxer.

JESSE OWENS

Jesse Owens was born in Alabama in 1913. When he was 23 years old, in 1936, he joined the Olympics. When he joined, there were a lot of Germans in that time who thought he could not win. After the first race he won, he was the first black man to win in the Olympics in Berlin. After a while he broke the all time record in the 100, 200, and 400 relay race. He also competed in the broad jump. The length of the jump was 26ft, He retired from the Olympics and left to Illinois and worked with children. his records lasted for 20 years.

Barack Obama is the new president of America and I read his description on Wikipedia and found info about him.

Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. Obama was born on Aug. 4 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents were an American mother and a Kenyan father. Obama graduated from Columbia University, then he attended Harvard Law School. He graduated Magna Cum Laude. Barack Obama is the first African-American to be president of America.

So Mr. Noon is told us to do a biography on African American people since it was Black History Month. I chose Tiger Woods, Barack Hussein Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Michael Jordan.

It was really fun learning about them and what cool things they did. I have been searching them on wiki it is like a place where you type in something and it tells you all about it.

Here is one of them when I was done with the biography.

Tiger Woods.

Edrick Tont Woods known as Tiger Woods was born on December 30, 1975 in California. He made a difference to the world by being the first African American to win the Masters Cup. African American people used to be not able to play in tournaments, but he won one of the hardest tournaments in golf, the Masters Cup. After winning one of the tournaments in golf, he started to win lots and lots more tournaments. He makes lots of money by playing golf. I think you should learn about him more because he's a great golfer and he inspires people that if they practice on something, they could be good at it.

In class I learned about Rosa Parks and here is what I learned about her.

ROSA PARKS

Rosa Louisa Parks was born in 1913 and died in 2005. Rosa's maiden name was Rosa Louise McCauley. Rosa was a seamstress and a long time member of NAACP. On December 1, 1955 she was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white man on a bus. After she got out of jail she and every black person in Montgomery did not he bus for over a year.

For the next few weeks we are going to do reports on Famous African Americans. Each kid in my class is going to choose 5 people to do reports on.

My top choices are Oprah Winfrey; she is an Emmy award winning television talk-show host, actress, and producer.

My second choice is Eddie Murphy. He is an film actor and comedian, and he is best known for his roles in movies such as Shrek, Dr. Dollitle, Daddy Daycare, and more.

My third choice is Queen Latifah. She began her career in hip-hop music when she performed Ladies Fresh. In 2003 she started in the box office hit Bringing Down the House with Steve Martin.

My fourth choice is Tiger Woods. He was the yougest (age 18) and first minority to win the U.S. Amateurs in 1994, won it again in '95 and '96 in the first full year on the PGA.

And my last choice was Tina Turner. She is a Grammy award winning rhythm and blues singer, and a athletic dancer.

So wish me luck on my report. bye.

African American History

1. Barack Obama: He is our new president.

2. Dred Scot: He argued in front of the Supreme Court for freedom.

3.George Washington Carver: He was a scientist who made peanut butter and over 160 ways to use it.

4. Biggie Smalls: He was a famous rapper also rapper of the year.

5. Shaquil O'Neal: He is a famous basketball player.

This week i am starting learning about some African Americans. And we're leaning 5 different ones of them.

1.Martin luther King Jr. is the civil rights leader. And he was the leader of the bus boycott.

2.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 7 foot tall and he's a basketball player, and he won championships 6 times.

3.Michel Jackson is a singer and a pop dancer; he's even a super star.

4.Michel Jordan is a basketball player.

5.Malcolm X was a black leader who said blacks should fight for their rights.

We are learning about African American history. We had to pick 5 people. My 5 people were Ruby Bridges, Mundy Peterson, Madam C. J. Walker, Dr. David J. Peck, and Cathay Williams.

Ruby Bridges was the frist African American to go to an all whites' school.

Mundy Peterson was the frist African American to vote in 1870.

Madam C. J. Walker was the first person black or white be a millionaire.

Dr. David J. Peck was the first African American to receive an Doctor of Medicine from an American medical school.

Cathay Williams was the first African-American woman enlistee in the U.S. Army.

Today we are learning about African American people and what they accomplished.

1 Martin Luther king Jr. He accomplished civil rights for African American people by protesting and nonviolence and to have peace to the world.

2 Rosa Parks. She let every one have their own rights by not getting off of her chair to a white person at a bus she was at.

3 Barack Obama. He accompished to be the first African American president.

4 Michael Jordan. He accomplished to be the most greatest basketball player.

5 Tiger woods. He accomplished to be the first African American to win a Masters Cup.

Today we had to pick 5 different Famous African American people.

1 I picked George Washington Carver who figured out how to use peanuts to make over 50 different uses.
2 Charles Drew R. who thought up blood banks.
3 Barrack Obama who became the first African American in history.

4 Matthew Henson who was one of the first people to explore the arctic and reach the pole.
5 Louis Armstrong, he is a great jazz player and singer.

Those are the 5 people I picked and those will be the ones I will learn about.

We are learning about famous African Americans here is my list

Will Smith was born on September 25, 1968. He's still alive. He's a famous Rapper/Actor. He's 41 years old. One of his song is Switch. He's mostly famous for his movies like: I, Robot, Hancock, Men in Black I, Men in Black II, and Independence Day. He donated $122,500 (or $$$$$$$$) to the Church of Scientolgy. You should know about him because he stars in movies about saving the world.

Matthew A. Henson was born August 6, 1866, in Charles Country Maryland. He died March 9, 1955 in New York. He was a cabin boy after his parents died. Later he became an explorer with William Perry. Later he reached the North Pole 45 minutes before Perry. He wasn't given full credit for it.

I am studying about African Americans. I am studying five people.
1. Oprah Winfrey is a talk show host, actress, and a producer.
2. Stevie Wonder is a blind singer-musician, and a producer.
3. George Washington Carver, he was the first person who invent peanut butter.
4. Barack Obama is the first African American president. He is the 44th president.
5. Ray Charles, he makes hit songs, and he plays piano.