Friday, February 27, 2015
Did you know Oprah was at Ludlow-Taylor ES on Thursday, February 26? President Obama was in the building too.
To wrap up Black History Month, students posed as famous wax figures in a Black History Museum. The “celebrities” would stand frozen in time. Their classmates would come up to them, clap, and the wax figures would share something about themselves before “freezing” again. Afterward, visiting students would get a stamp in their passport for learning about these important historical figures. Take a look!
- Oprah (Markayla, 3rd grade)“I was born in 1954 and I have my own morning show and my own network.”
- John H. Johnson (Roland, 2nd grade) “I am an African-American publisher. I almost single-handedly opened up the commercial magazine marketplace for people of color.”
- Dr. Garrett Morgan (Brandon, 1st grade) “I was an African-American inventor. I held patents for inventions such as the traffic signal.”
- President Barack Obama (Jaden, 1st grade) “I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. I am the first African-American to serve as president.”
- Rosa Parks (Julia, 2nd grade) “I refused to surrender my seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. “
- Guion Bluford, Jr. (Teagen and Nolan, kindergarten) “In 1983, I became the first African-American to travel in space!”
- Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (Willie, 2nd grade) “I performed the first open-heart surgery in America and opened the first interracial hospital!”