Grade+7+Technology

= January 2011 Project: =

This is an individual project, to be completed in several stages.

Stage 1: You need to choose a notable Black American to profile in your project. This person may be a politician, a Civil Rights leader, a religious leader, a scientist/inventor, an Abolitionist, a scholar/educator, an entertainer, or an athlete.

Please try to limit the choices of current athletes or entertainers.

Answer the following questions about the person:

Find biographical information (DOB, DOD, family info, where is he/she from)

Include their educational information

Explain in detail why this person is important to American History.

All of this data can be recorded in a word document. You may copy and paste text from web sites but you must use your own words in the presentation portion of this report. Save this document to your flash drive as yourname.bhmdata Type in the content of your page here.