My hero from black history is…
CASSY MEISENHEIMER My fellow Cass County native Bessie Coleman #womanpilot #stuntf lier #queenbess
TERRI SANDEFUR Harriet Tubman #abolitionist #undergroundrailroad #tubman20
KARA HUMPHREY Ernest Green, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Thelma
LEAH ORR Sojourner Truth
#foughtforabolition #foughtforwomen #foughtforcivilrights
Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Carlotta Walls—“The Little Rock Nine” #courageousstudents
MATT CORNELIUS Nelson Mandela #nobelprize #antiapartheid #southafrica
BRITT EARNEST Ida B. Wells Using “media” for good! #americanjournalist
ANNI BISHOP Rosa Parks #activisit #notmoving
LINDSEY CLARK Misty Danielle Copeland #dancer #AmericanBalletTheatre
BAILEY GRAVITT Jackie Robinson #42 #baseballplayer #1stMLB
TERRI GRAVITT Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson #hiddenf igures #mathematicians
MEGAN GRIFFIN Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron #baseballplayer #thehammer
TIFFANY HORTON Harriet Jacobs #formerslave #author
MOLLY RILEY Maya Angelou #poet #author
MADELEINE RUSSELL Dr. Shirley Finn (www.texarkanacollege.edu/ dr-shirley-f inn-legacy/) #trailblazer
EMILY SARINE Booker T. Washington
CAROLINE PURTLE Madam C.J. Walker #entrepreneur #selfmade
#educator #reformer #adviser
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