Black History Month
1st Annual Black History Month Scavenger Hunt
The Freedom Fighter 
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" - Nelson R Mandela
Purpose Of scavenger hunt
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
The Duke
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)
Frederick Douglass
Freedom Fighter
110th & Fredrick Douglass Circle
Frederick Douglass would continue his active involvement to better the lives of African Americans. He conferred with Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and recruited northern blacks for the Union Army. After the War he fought for the rights of women and African Americans alike. (See more)
Ralph Ellison
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 Jackie Robinson
Baseball Player
An American baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major Leaugue Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the beseball color line when Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947.
Here are other places you may want to visit !
Martin Luther King Jr.-147th Between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. & Malcolm X Boulevard.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.-125th & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard
Harriet Tubman - 122nd & Frederick Douglass Boulevard
Remember ..
that some of NYC streets are named after these important people. Yes! You can take a picture in one of these streets as well! Here are some streets names you should look out for:
A. Philip Randolph Boulevard ( w145th)
Dr.Betty Shabazz way (Brodway)
African Square
Alvin Ailey Way
More streets!
Johnny Hatman Plaza
Lucille Bulger Place
Madam CJ & A'Leila Walker Way
Thelonious Sphere Monk Circle
Thurgood Marshall Boulevard.
Duke Ellington Boulevard
slave 1 theater
1215 Fulton Street
Read Story's historic Slave theater # 1 was once an intellectual hub in the black community for art, theater and cultural consciousness
Louis armstrong's home
34-56 107th St Corona, NY 11368
Cotton club
656 west 125th
Black History Month Scavenger Hunt 2014
By Melissa Mejia Bonilla
Black History Month Scavenger Hunt 2014
Black History Month Scavenger Hunt 2014
