8th+Grade+Unit

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Science & Technology:

[|Albert Einstein- physicist famous for his theory of relativity]

[|Robert Goddard-scientist who launched the first liquid fueled rocket]

 Athletes:

[|Babe Ruth – world famous baseball player who led the Yankees to 7 world series].

[|Jack Dempsey- one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.]

[|James “Cool Papa” Bell-baseball player in the Negro Baseball League]

[|Andrew “Rube” Foster- baseball player & executive in the Negro Baseball League]

[|Lou Gehrig- famous New York Yankees baseball player]

Art & Poetry

[|Langston Hughes- important writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance]

[|Zora Neale Hurston-African American writer of the Harlem Renaissance] [|Georgia O’Keefe-American artist & painter]

Musicians :

[|Josephine Baker- Entertainer]

[|Bessie Smith – famous blues singer]

[|Duke Ellington- musician and bandleader at the Cotton Club]

[|Louis Armstrong- jazz trumpeter and singer]

[|Fats Waller- jazz pianist and entertainer] [|Cab Calloway- famous American Jazz Singer]

[|Ferdinand “Jellyroll” Morton- famous ragtime pianist and composer]

Aviation

[|Charles Lindberg- first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Oc] ean

[|Amelia Earhart-American aviation pioneer who disappeared while attempting to fly around the gl] obe.

[|Bessie Coleman- first African American to become a pilot]

Social Activists:

<span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block">[|A. Phillip Randolph-civil rights leader]

[|Margaret Sanger-American Birth Control Activist]

[|Marcus Garvey-founder of the UNIA and African American Rights Activist]

[|W.E.B. DuBois- founder of the NAACP and African American Rights Activist.]

<span style="font-size: 300%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: #0088ff; text-align: center; display: block">Entertainers:

<span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block">[|Charlie Chaplin –comedy actor & filmmaker]

<span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block">[|Paul Robeson- actor, writer, & athlete]

[|Al Jolson- entertainer & movie star]

[|Greta Garbo- Academy Award winning actress]

<span style="font-size: 300%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: #df2626; text-align: center; display: block">Fashion Designers :

<span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[|Coco Chanel –women’s fashion designer]