Homecoming/Spirit Week 2021 begins Monday!!! Elementary March is Reading Month activities also begins on Monday. FACTS/TRIVIA John Mercer Langston became the first African American lawyer in the U.S. when he passed the bar in 1854. Mathematician and scientist Benjamin Banneker is credited for designing the layout of Washington, D.C. Both…
Homecoming/Spirit Week 2021 begins next week!!! Elementary March is Reading Month activities also begin next week. FACTS/TRIVIA Ralph Bunche was the first person of color and the first African-American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize (1950). Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead a U.S. military operation. Agricultural scientist,…
Homecoming/Spirit Week 2021 begins next week!!! Elementary March is Reading Month activities also begin next week. FACTS/TRIVIA The 6888th Battalion was an All-Black, All-Female unit of the military that delivered mail to WWII troops across England. John Baxter Taylor was the first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal (1908).…
NHS applications are due to Mrs. Pargeon today, 12:50 p.m. FACTS/TRIVIA Matthew Henson was a key member of the first successful expedition (1909) to the North Pole and made seven separate voyages to the Artic. Madam C.J. Walker was an African American entrepreneur who became America’s first female self-made millionaire.…
NHS applications are due to Mrs. Pargeon tomorrow, 12:50 p.m. FACTS/TRIVIA Josephine Baker (one of showbiz’s most iconic performers) was a spy for the French during WWII. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on Maya Angelou’s 40th birthday. Nine months before Rosa Parks, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up…
NHS applications are due to Mrs. Pargeon on Friday, 12:50 p.m. FACTS/TRIVIA Phillis Wheatley was only 12 (1773) when she became the first published female African American author. Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar, wasn’t allowed to attend *Gone With the Wind*’s national premiere in Atlanta,…
NHS applications are due to Mrs. Pargeon on Friday, 12:50 p.m. FUN FACTS Several of his descendants and a few historians claim that John Hanson is actually the forgotten first president of the United States because he was the first president under the Articles of Confederation. William McKinley, Grover Cleveland,…
There is no school on Monday. FUN FACTS Every so often, Calvin Coolidge would press all the buttons on the President’s desk, hide and watch his staff run in. He would then pop out from behind the door and say that he was just seeing if everyone was working. It…
There are no CTC classes tomorrow and there is no school on Monday. FUN FACTS Martin Van Buren, the 8th president, was the first U.S. president to be born a United States citizen. All previous presidents were born British subjects. Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in…
There are no CTC classes on Friday and there is no school on Monday. FUN FACTS Thomas Jefferson and John Adams once traveled to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare’s birthplace. While there, they took a knife to one of Shakespeare’s chairs so they could take home some wood chips as souvenirs.…