Biography Banners / Pennants - Black History Month

Celebrate the lives + accomplishments of African-American heroes + historical figures with these research pennants!

This is the perfect project for February (Black History Month)-- or any time you want your students to study inspirational figures while developing their  research + informational writing skills.

Encourage student choice + creativity. How? invite kids to customize their pennants by letting them choose which writing prompts they will respond to. This level of student choice will set each of your kids up for success + will also guarantee that each pennant is as unique as your students.

A one-of-a-kind way to decorate your hallway displays + bulletin boards!

This resource includes Biography Banners for the following figures:

• Althea Gibson
• Aretha Franklin
• Arthur Ashe
• Barack Obama
• Barbara Jordan
• Benjamin O. Davis
• Bessie Coleman
• Booker T. Washington
• Charlotte E. Ray
• Colin Powell
• Daniel Hale Williams
• Elijah McCoy
• Fred Jones
• Frederick Douglass
• Garrett Morgan
• George Washington Carver
• Guion Bluford
• Harriet Tubman
• Hattie McDaniel
• Ida B. Wells
• Jackie Robinson
• James Weldon Johnson
• Jesse Owens
• Joe Louis
• John Lewis
• Katherine Johnson
• Langston Hughes
• Louis Armstrong
• Mae Jemison
• Mahalia Jackson
• Malcolm X
• Marcelite Harris
• Mary Bowser
• Mary Eliza Mahoney
• Matthew Henson
• Michael Jordan
• Michelle Obama
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Muhammad Ali
• Nichelle Nichols
• Phyllis Wheatley
• Ralph Ellison
• Raven Wilkinson
• Rebecca Lee Crumpler
• Robert Robinson Taylor
• Rosa Parks
• Ruby Bridges
• Shirley Chisholm
• Sojourner Truth
• Thurgood Marshall
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Wilma Rudolph
• Zora Neale Hurston

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