8th grade Black History Month project

Everyone needs to choose one African American who has made history in some way and do a research project on him/her.

The format you choose for this project is up to you, but you must turn in the following:
1) A research project that thoroughly proves your knowledge/admiration for the person you chose.
2) Two pages of notes proving your research.
3) A typed bibliography

Suggestions for possible project formats:
1) Poem
2) PowerPoint
3) Video
4) ABC book
5) Picture Book
6) Persuasive essay explaining why that person deserves to be... (an award winner, in the hall of fame, etc.)
7) A multi-genre project (choose a variety of genres to showcase your knowledge)

Remember: this project needs to showcase what you have learned about the person you chose.

Suggestions for people to choose:
1) Alvin Ailey - famous dance company creator
2) James Baldwin - American author
3) Langston Hughes - American poet/author
4) Maya Angelou - American poet
5) Josephine Baker - entertainer/Civil rights activist
6) Grace Bumbry - American opera singer
7) W.E.B. DuBois - founder of the NAACP
8) Billie Holliday - famous Jazz snger
9) Hattie McDaniel - first African American to win an Academy Award
10) Jackie Robinson - first African American baseball player in the major leagues
11) Effa Manley - first woman to be inducted in the baseball hall of fame
12) BK Bruce - first African American senator
13) Harriet Tubman - conductor of the Underground Railroad
14) Phillis Wheatly - one of the first African American poets to be published
15) Malcom X - human rights activist
16) Sojourner Truth - abolitionist, activist
17) William Carney - first African American to be awarded the medal of honor
18) WC Handy - known as "The Father of the Blues"
19) Medgar Evers - instrumental in desegregating the University of Mississippi
20) Duke Ellington - famous Jazz musician
21) Jimi Hendrix - one of the most influential American guitarists of all time
22) Louis Armstrong - famous Jazz trumpeter
23) Thurgood Marshall - first African American to serve on the supreme court
24) Frederick Douglass - abolitionist, first African American appointed to a high rank in American government
25) Scott Joplin - famous musician known for composing ragtime jazz
26) Elijah McCoy - mechanical engineer and inventor, known for the saying, "The Real McCoy."
27) Jesse Owens - one of the world's greatest track and field athletes
28) Booker T. Washington - freed by the Emancipation Proclimation, civil rights activist, poet, and professor
29) George Washington Carver - scientist, educator, inventor
30) Carter Woodson - one of the first scholars to see the value in studying Black History