1926+Personalities+of+the+year

Martha Graham Credited for creating the foundations for modern dance Martha Graham shown above is seen performing. She created her own dance studio in New York, New York. Carter G. Woodson Woodson, often looked apon as the Father of Black History, was one of the main reasons we celibrate Black History Month today. Starting off as only a Negro Hisory week including Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincolns birthdays, two men who progressed the freedom of slaves. Gertrude Ederle At only 19 years of age Gertrude Ederle became the frist woman to swim across the English Channel on August 6, 1926. Being the first woman to do so is an honnor in itself but doing that and beating the previous records set by the men who did the same thing was an amazing accoplishment for her.