Black History Month: Inspirational Women in History

• History
• 9-12 Grade

Introduction

History is still often enough written out if the white perspective. LessonUp has created a lesson especially for you and in the light of #blackhistorymonth highlighting these six amazing inspirational women.

Instructions

Use this interactive lesson about these six inspirational women with your class, synchronously or asynchronously. 

Synchronous teaching

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Asynchronous teaching
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Black History Month: Inspirational Women

in History

_____________  _______

At the end of
this lesson you will:

 

• know six important women in history,
• think about why women and people of
   color were/are mentioned less in history.

Who inspires you?

What do these people do to inspire you?

Lets get to know 6

__________________   __________.

Who is
Harriet Tubman?

Born: Dorchester County, Maryland

Died: March 10, 1913, Auburn, New York

Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist.

What would you do to help your friends and family?

Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and made +/- 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

Who is Maggie Lena Walker?

Born: July 15, 1864, Richmond, Virginia
Died: December 15, 1934, Richmond, Virginia

• Born to enslaved parents
• Walker’s father was killed 
• She helped her mother financially by working
• Attended a local school in Richmond
• Began teaching after
• Stepped down from teaching after she married

She offered tangible improvements in the way of life for African Americans and women.

First African American woman to charter a bank in the United States.

Who is
Marian Anderson?

Born: February 27, 1897, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Died: April 8, 1993, Portland, Oregon

After high school, Anderson applied to an all-white music school, the Philadelphia Music Academy. She was turned away because she was black. She got told: "We don't take coloured".

Would you pursue working at a place where people insulted and offended you?

She is considered one of the most important singers of the 20th century. She performed in the U.S. and Europe, beginning in the 1920s.

Would you pursue working at a place where people insulted and offended you?

Who is

Rosa Parks?

In December 1943, Parks became active in the civil rights movement, joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and was elected secretary.

Parks being fingerprinted by a cop on February 22, 1956, when she was arrested again after a grand jury indicted 113 African Americans for organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.

She refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery.

Born: February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama

Died: October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan

What would you have done

in Rosa Parks' situation?

Who is
Mae Jemison?

Born: October 17, 1956, Decatur, Alabama

Retired: March 1993

She graduated from Stanford in 1977. While at Stanford, she pursued studies related to her childhood interest in space and first considered applying to NASA.

She was the first Black woman admitted to the astronaut training program, in 1987.

The first black woman to travel into space.

Would you dare to go to space?

No way...

Maybe

Yes, yes, yes! When can I go?

Who is
Michelle Obama?

Born: January 17, 1964, Chicago, Illinois

She is an accomplished lawyer. She attended both Princeton University and Harvard Law School.

Michelle Obama worked as an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating.

The first Black woman to serve as the First Lady of the United States.

What do all these women have in common?

Drag these inspirational women in

the correct order of appearance.

Question:
Drag the events in the correct order.

Answer:

1948: President Truman desegregated the army.

1955: Rosa Park's action starts the Montgomery bus boycott.

1963: Martin Luther King Jr. leads the March on Washington 

1965: President Johnson signs the voting rights act.

1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated.

Who of these women do you find most inspirational?

Why do we celebrate
Black History Month?

It serves as a powerful reminder that Black history is part of history, even though it is mentioned way less. All stories are essential to the ongoing story — our faults, our struggles, our progress, and our aspirations.

Why do you think that black people
are mentioned less in history?

Topics you can discuss:

• white supremacy
• race and racism

What have you learned in this lesson?

How did you like this lesson?

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