about me

let us further now receive from our youth ministries special men and our children and youth I was born a slave on Maryland's Eastern Shore I returned to the south at least 19 times to leave my family and hundreds of other slaves to
freedom by the Underground Railroad I am Harriet Tubman I was born I was born 18 I was born July 10th 1875 in Maysville South Carolina and in 1904 I began teaching Negro girls in 1923 I merged with Cookman Institute I I am a teacher and a leader I am dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, I was born in Delaware 1831 at the age of 21 I moved to Charleston Massachusetts to work as a nurse in 1860 at the age of 29 I entered the new English female medical college and graduated as the first black female doctor I am dr. Rebecca Lee on December 1st 1955 I refused to obey bus driver James likes the man to relinquish my seat to a white man I was arrested and charged this act of civil disobedience triggered the Montgomery bus boycott Who am I I'm a civil rights activist known as the mother of modern-day civil rights movement I am Rosa Louise Parks I was born in 1917 up Creole born in New Orleans Louisiana in 1932 as a teenager I auditioned for the famous Ballet Russe a de monte-carlo performed in Los Angeles later I was told that in order to perform I would have to paint my skin white this crushing experience only motivated need to work harder and later I became the first African American artist to perform in the Metro Metropolitan Opera and a dancing sensation I continued to dance and perform with other companies including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater I am the first black Valerie nough I am Janet College born on April 4th, 1928 in st. Louis Missouri at 14 I dropped out to become San Francisco's first african-american female cable car conductor later after high school I became a single mother and a waitress still having the passion for the Arts in 1958 I moved to New York to join the Harlem Writers Guild later I traveled to Egypt and I wanna you may know me from my book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I I have I have earned over 50 honorary degrees I am Alive today and I'm professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University I am a Renaissance woman dr. Maya Angelou, I am broken I'm a teacher I am smart I am talented phenomenal woman comes to veggies job children.