1st Annual Black History Month Scavenger Hunt

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" - Nelson R Mandela 

This will be our first annual black history scavenger hunt. All student at FMHS are encouraged to participate. This is a fun activity in which you can participate with friends or family members.  As an FMHS community we are using this as a way to take part to honor  Black History Month. 

The task is to visit as many of the following of the sites, take your picture in the site and send it as soon as possible to your REP. 

Prize : $20 iTunes Gift Card 

A Composer and A musician 

110TH Street Fifth Avenue 

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was the most prolific composer of the twentieth century in terms of both number of compositions and variety of forms. His development was one of the most spectacular in the history of music, underscored by more than fifty years of sustained achievement as an artist and an entertainer. ( See more)

Freedom Fighter

110th & Fredrick Douglass Circle 

Writer 

150th & Riverside Drive

 In writing "INVISIBLE MAN" in the late 1940s, Ralph Ellison brought onto the scene a new kind of black protagonist, one at odds with the characters of the leading black novelist at the time, Richard Wright. If Wright’s characters were angry, uneducated, and inarticulate — the consequences of a society that oppressed them    

Baseball Player 

 

Martin Luther King Jr.-147th Between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. & Malcolm X Boulevard. 

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.-125th & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard