day 8 Oprah Gail Winfrey, an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years.
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day 9 Bernard A. Harris Jr., a NASA astronaut who became the first African American to perform an extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk), during the second of his two Space Shuttle flights.
day 10 Bessie Coleman an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license, and is the earliest known Black person to earn an international pilot's license.
day 11 Malcolm X, an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure for the civil rights movement.
day 12 Maya Angelou, multi-talented American author, poet, civil rights activist, singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood's first Black female director.
day 14 Frederick Douglass, an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century. #blackhistorymonth #frederickdouglassbirthday
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