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title: Black History Month Figures and Hyperlinks | KS3 and KS4 Teaching Resource
description: Discover a resource for Black History Month featuring notable figures and student-friendly bios, designed to inspire interest and discussion.
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# [Black History Month Figures and Hyperlinks | KS3 and KS4 Teaching Resource](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/black-history-month-figures-and-hyperlinks)

 Written by [Douglas Wise](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/author/wise) | 3 October, 2026

 

Click on the button above to download a couple of slides I put together for tutor time as part of Black History Month. The first contains fifteen images of notable figures (below) and the second contains hyperlinks that lead to student-friendly bios. Some of the figures will be instantly familiar, whilst others will be guessable; a few probably won’t be and that’s the point.

The resource is nothing flashy. It’s simply designed to spark interest and discussion.

Here’s a list of the figures:

A = Sislin Fay Allen (first Black female police officer)

B = Mary Seacole (businesswoman and nurse during the Crimean War)

C = Rosa Parks (refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery in 1955)

D = Richard Wright (author who wrote about racism and poverty)

E = Ella Fitzgerald (widely celebrated jazz singer)

F = Roy Hackett (civil rights campaigner and community leader)

G = Chinua Achebe (widely celebrated Nigerian author)

H = Simone Biles (most decorated gymnast in history)

I = Stormzy (musician and philanthropist)

J = Zadie Smith (author and academic)

K = Ignatius Sancho (writer, composer and abolitionist)

L = Katherine Johnson (NASA mathematician whose work was vital to the Mercury and Apollo missions)

M = Lauren James (Chelsea and England footballer who won the 2025 Euros)

N = Bernardine Evaristo (author and the first black woman to win the Booker Prize)

O = Betty Campbell (Wales’s first black headteacher)

Hope the resource is useful –

Doug

[hello@douglaswise.co.uk](mailto:hello@douglaswise.co.uk)

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