Famous African American Poems

By: Ms. Williams' Class

February 2008

To celebrate black history month 5th graders in Ms. Williams' 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 George Washington Carver  Thurgood Marshall Bessie Smith
Maya Angelou Bessie Coleman Jesse Owens Harriet Tubman
Benjamin Banneker Fredrick Douglass Rosa Parks Sarah Walker
James Beckwourth Charles Drew Colin Powell Booket T. Washington
Mary McLeod Bethune Matthew Henson Jackie Robinson Tiger Woods
Ruby Bridges   Wilma Rudolph