Sports
was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA, he won five championships, the MVP in 2008, and was voted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 2020.
Kobe Bean Bryant
is an African American United States Capitol Police Officer, who during the 2021 U. S. Capitol attack, diverted the rioters from the U. S. Senate chambers on January 6, 2021.
Eugene Goodman
an astronaut, was nationally recognized for his work in laser physics. He died in an explosion in 1986 aboard the space shuttle, Challenger.
Dr. Ronald McNair,
________is the first African American Assembly person from the Inland Empire.
Wilmer Amina Carter
My People
MY PEOPLE
By Langston Hughes
The night is beautiful
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful
So the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
became the first African American to play professional baseball for a major league team, the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Jackie Robinson
is the first Black lawmaker to lead a party in Congress in 2023.
Hakeen Jefferies
an ophthalmologist and laser scientist, was an innovative research scientist and advocate for blindness prevention, treatment, and cure.
Patricia E. Bath
is the first African American police officer to serve as Chief of Police at Cal State San Bernardino on April 11, 2023.
John Gutierrez
Love
LOVE
By Eugene Perkins
Love your brother little sister
Show him that you care
Love your sister little brother
Show her that she’s dear.
Love your sister
Love your brother
Love your family
Love each other
Love, Love, Love
That’s what we need plenty of.
During the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, _____ made history when she won her sixth gold medal in the 4X100 relay. She is the most decorated track and field sprinter in history to win nine medals in track and field events in the U.S.
Allyson Felix
is the first African American elected President of the United States of America. In 2009, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.
Barack Obama
an astrophysicist, who studied the stars, planets, and universe. He is currently the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He has an asteroid named after him – 13123 Tyson.
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson,
______ was a long-time community activist and author. She also served as an administrator in the San Bernardino Unified School District. She was an Assistant Superintendent for the San Bernardino County Schools. She was a member of the San Bernardino City School Board until her death in 2022.
Dr. Margaret Hill
Go To The Back Rosa Parks
Go To the Back Rosa Parks
Author Unknown
Go to the back of the bus, Rosa Parks
Go to the back and stay
“No, I won’t, I think that’s unfair"
But everyone knows the rules, Rosa Parks
Everyone knows if you’re black
You can’t eat at white restaurants
And on buses, you sit in the back
So now it’s time to move, Rosa Parks
“No, I’m not moving at all
I’ve got a voice and I’m going to use it
And thousands will hear the call”
“We’re coming to sit with you, Rosa Parks”
People black and white did say
“We’re coming to change America
And bring equality here to stay!”
became the first African American artistic gymnast to win five gold medals in gymnastics during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. She won her 8th U. S. Championship title in San Jose, CA in August 2023.
Simone Biles
is the first African American woman to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court on April 7, 2022, by the U. S. Senate.
Katanji Brown Jackson
developed a home video game system with cartridges that could be inserted and taken out of the gaming console one at a time. This changed the way the video game industry operates.
Gerald Lawson
_____a graduate of Cajun High and the 2024 recipient of the Heisman Trophy is an American professional football quarterback for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League.
Jayden Daniels,
Harriet Tubman
HARRIET TUBMAN
By Eloise Greenfield
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff
Wasn’t scared of nothing neither
Didn’t come in this world to be no slave
And wasn’t going to stay one either
“Farewell!” she sang to her friends one night
She was mighty sad to leave ‘em
But she ran away that dark, hot night
Ran looking for her freedom
She ran to the woods and she ran through the
woods
With the slave catchers right behind her
And she kept going till she got to the North
Where those mean men couldn’t find her
Nineteen times she went back South
To get three hundred others
She ran for her freedom nineteen times
To save Black sisters and brothers
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff
Wasn’t scared of nothing neither
Didn’t come in this world to be no slave
And didn’t stay one either
And didn’t stay one either
was the first African American gymnast to win two gold medals in gymnastics at the 2012 Olympics in London.
Gabrielle (Gaby) Douglas
served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015.He was the first African American to hold the position of Attorney General.
Erick Holder, Jr.
was known as the soybean chemist. His research led to cortisone, which is used to treat glaucoma, arthritis, etc.
Percy Julian
One month and 117 years after the founding of San Bernardino Police Department, _____ made history as the first African American Police Chief on June 15,
2023.
Darren Goodman,
Caged Bird
Caged Bird
By Maya Angelou
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing
trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright
lawn
and he names the sky his own.
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.