Famous African American Poems

By: Ms. Clasper's Class

February-March 2006

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.

Maya Angelou Matthew Henson Bill Pickett Booket T. Washington
George Washington Carver  Langston Hughes Colin Powell Ida B. Wells
Bessie Coleman Michael Jordan Jackie Robinson Oprah Winfrey
Fredrick Douglass Martin Luther King Harriet Tubman Tiger Woods
W.E.B. Dubois Jesse Owens Wilma Rudolph  
Elizabeth Freeman Rosa Parks Sarah Walker