'No matter where they come from, how they look, they can make a difference,' LaToya McGriff said of her students
She’s also dressed as mathematician and aeronautical engineer, Arthur Ashe, the local school district’s first black superintendent Mack Benn Jr., Col. Fred Cherry, Ella Fitzgerald, Booker T. Washington, teacher Florence Bowser, slave-turned-Colonial-spy James Lafayette, Henrietta Lacks, Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. Howard Baugh and Maggie Walker, the first black female bank president in the country.
Notable Moments in Black History to Observe This Week, from Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar Win to Thelonious Monk’s TIME Cover McGriff told the outlet that she’s been using the outfits as a way to spark discussion in her classroom, as the kids often want to learn more about who she had chosen to portray each day.
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