Famous African American Poems

By: Ms. Clasper's Class

February-March 2005

To celebrate black history month 5th graders in Ms. Clasper 's class did a research project each profiling a famous African American. Once their research was complete they wrote a poem about their person.

Note: Photographs have been removed from student's original poems due to copyright restrictions.

Marian Anderson Bessie Coleman Thurgood Marshall Jackie Robinson
Crispus Attucks Fredrick Douglass Jan Matzeliger Bessie Smith
James Beckwourth Charles Drew Garret Morgan Harriet Tubman
Mary Bethune Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett) Jesse Owens Sarah Walker
Ruby Bridges Langston Hughes Rosa Parks Phillis Wheatley
Ralph Bunche Martin Luther King Sidney Poitier Daniel Williams
George Washington Carver  Lewis Latimer Philip Randolph Granville Woods