February 2022

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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