Keller Independent School District issued the following announcement.
February is Black History Month and Keller ISD is excited about the opportunities it presents to specifically highlight achievements of Black Americans and celebrate Black culture.
Keller ISD Social-Emotional Learning and Culture of Belonging have compiled a number of resources and reference materials for teachers and staff to prepare Black History educational opportunities throughout the month. Additionally, there is a family guide for more ideas about how to celebrate at home. Download the Black History Month Family Resource here.
Follow along with us on social media throughout February. The Twitter account @KISD_Belonging will be posting videos from committee members sharing interesting facts about their personal Black History Month Heroes. We invite you to share your own Black History Month celebrations by using the hashtags #ibelonginKISD and #KISDputinthework.
Collage featuring the words "Black History Month" and portraits of famous Black Americans
Collage of famous Black Americans
Who's in the Collage? (From top left to bottom right)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Baptist minister and civil rights leader
Katherine Johnson – Mathematician and one of the first African American women to work for NASA
Denzel Washington – Director, Producer, and Academy Award-Winning Actor
Barack Obama – 44th U.S. President and first African American U.S. President
Shirley Chisholm – U.S. Representative and the first Black woman to be elected to U.S. Congress
Stevie Wonder – singer, songwriter, musician, record producer
Jesse Owens – four-time Gold Medal-winner at 1936 Berlin Olympics
Ibram X. Kendi – author, professor activist, historian, and Director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University
Richard Allen – minister, educator, writer, and founder of African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church
Maya Angelou – poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist
Oprah Winfrey – Emmy-award winning talk show host, TV producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
Quincy Jones – legendary record producer, songwriter, and composer
Booker T. Washington – educator, author, and U.S. presidential advisor
Rosa Parks – civil rights activist
Mary McLeoud Bethune – educator, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist
Ida B. Wells – journalist and civil rights leader
Toni Morrison – novelist, essayist, and professor
Sarena Williams – professional tennis player with the most Grand Slam titles (23) in the Open Era
Thurgood Marshall – lawyer, civil rights activist, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Frederick Douglass – writer, orator, social reformer, and abolitionist
Langston Hughes – poet, novelist, and playwright
Harriet Tubman – abolitionist and political activist
Kamala Harris – 49th U.S. Vice President and the first African American or Asian American to hold the office
Michael Jordan – business man and six-time NBA champion basketball player
Jackie Robinson – baseball Hall-of-Famer and first African American to play in modern Major League Baseball
August Wilson – Tony Award-winning playwright
Malcolm X – human rights activist and civil rights leader
Aretha Franklin – singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist
Sidney Portier – actor, director, and first Black male to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
Muhammad Ali – champion boxer, entertainer, philanthropist, and activist
Sojourner Truth – abolitionist and women's rights activist
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. – first African American Brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force
Original source can be found here.
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