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0 <br /> 0 <br /> c <br /> Cn <br /> CONTINUED ACTIVITY m <br /> Stars of The Court, The Field, o <br /> The Mud, The Stage, and The Page. GOING FURTHER! <br /> 0 <br /> M <br /> 0 <br /> Choose one of these famous <br /> Americans, and research about D <br /> 1. 1 road in my first Kentucky Derby when I was fifteen, and I went on to be the first person to their lives in books and on the <br /> win three Kentucky Derbies. I won 44% of my races, a record which has never been broken. My Internet. Present the information <br /> name is Isaac Murphy. you find to your class. <br /> 2. 1 was a true Renaissance Man. I earned an academic scholarship to Rutgers University, o <br /> becoming the third African American student there in history and graduated as class valedictorian °y <br /> in 1919. 1 was a two-time All American football player and also excelled in baseball, basketball, co <br /> and track. I became a world famous actor and singer on the stage and the screen. My name is <br /> Paul Robeson. co <br /> 3. 1 have always loved music, and when I was nine years old, I would sing on the street <br /> corners for coins. I eventually became one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920's. With o <br /> o my first recording, I became the most successful African American performing artist of my time. My <br /> N <br /> name is Bessie Smith. <br /> O 4. 1 was a cornerstone of the National Football league. I was an All American player at Brown <br /> University and went on lead my first professional team, the Akron Pros, in rushing, scoring, and <br /> punt returns while I was serving at the head coach. My name is Fritz Pollard. <br /> 5. 1 grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated African American community in <br /> E America. I attended Howard University, then moved to New York to work with other creative people <br /> cc <br /> of my time. I was considered an authority on Black culture during the Harlem Renaissance as a <br /> 0 famous novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. My name is Zora Neale Hurston. <br /> CU 6. My mother taught me how to play piano. When I was a teenager, I studied with New York <br /> musicians in "stride style" piano and toured with bands around the country. My big band music <br /> ° of the jazz swing era gained popularity during the Harlem Renaissance and I became one of the <br /> o leading musicians of my time. My name is Count Basie. <br /> 7. In college, I broke three world records and tied a forth in a single track meet, although I <br /> wwas made to use "black-only" hotels and restaurants when I traveled with the team. I was the first <br /> ,, person in American history to win four gold medals for Track and Field in a single Olympics—the <br /> L 1936 games in Hitler's Nazi Germany. My name is Jessie Ownes <br /> > 8. 1 was the first African American to win the French Open, the US Open, and Wimbledon. In <br /> ° 1957 and 1958, the Associated Press named me Female Athlete of the Year. I opened the door for <br /> other African Americans to become tennis stars. Later in my career, I joined the ladies professional <br /> f golf tour. My name is Althea Gibson. <br /> 0) <br /> U <br />