Black History Month Scavenger Hunt 2014

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!