Lesson Package | 21 Black History Posters and Colouring Pages

Use the posters to decorate the room with portraits of amazing Black people from history – Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Jesse Owen, Mae Jemison, Barack Obama, and more! Better yet, have your students create their own versions by colouring the black-and-white pages or using the make-your-own template.

Black History: Colouring Page and Poster Set Includes

- Two big-format posters (featuring twelve Black heroes and their inspirational quotes)
- Twenty one full-colour full-page posters
- Twenty one black-and-white full-page posters
- Twenty inspiring Black people: Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Jesse Owen, Mae Jemison, Barack Obama, Thurgood Marshall, Gordon Washington Carver, Josephine Baker, Harriet Tubman, Ella Fitzgerald, Katherine Johnson, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Mary Seacole, Madame C.J. Walker, Alexandre Dumas, Joseph Bologne, Charles Drew, and Alexander Pushkin

Each Poster and Each Colouring Page Includes

- An illustration of an amazing Black person from history
- His/her name, date of birth and country of birth
- Her/his most important accomplishments
- A few biographical facts from his/her life, expressed in symbols

The last page offers a template for creating additional posters. Ask your students to create a poster for an inspiring Black person from history that was not included in the list—then display a gallery of their work!