 LeBron Ramone James was born in Akron, Ohio and is
the only player in NBA history to average at least 26
points, 6 rebounds, and 6 assists for his career
 In 2008, James donated $20,000 to a committee to
elect Barack Obama and gathered almost 20,000 people
at the Quicken Loans Arena for a viewing of Democratic
presidential nominee Barack Obama's 30minute American Stories, American Solutions television
advertisement
 In response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, James sent
$200,000 in supplies to evacuees in Louisiana, Texas and
Mississippi, donated 1,000 backpacks and school
supplies to students in Akron and Cleveland, distributed
basketballs to every recreation center in Akron and
Cleveland and paid for the renovation of the Women's
Health Center at Summa Health System
 He also participated in numerous programs with the
Cavaliers and through the Make-A-Wish Foundation
• Academy Award-winning actor,
director, producer
• Clooney's humanitarian work
includes his advocacy of finding
a resolution for the Darfur
conflict, raising funds for the
2010 Haiti earthquake, 2004
Tsunami and 9/11 victims, and
creating documentaries such as
Sand and Sorrow to raise
awareness about international
crises
 On January 18, 2008, the United Nations announced
Clooney's appointment as a United Nations messenger
of peace, effective from January 31
 Clooney conceived of and initiated the Satellite
Sentinel Project (SSP) after an October 2010 trip to
South Sudan
 SSP aims to monitor armed activity for signs of renewed
civil war between Sudan and South Sudan, and to detect
and deter mass atrocities along the border regions there
 Commanding General of the
 Confederate Army during the Civil
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Son of an American Revolutionary
war Hero
Graduated top of his class from West
Point Military Academy
Served in the American Army for 32 years
Lee asked to be pardoned, and to regain his
citizenship; this did not officially happen until 1975
 Pro tennis athlete, entrepreneur in
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owner of the Miami Dolphins
Winner of 21 Grand Slam Titles
First African-American woman to own
an NFL Franchise
First black woman to be ranked #1 in
Professional Tennis
Advocated for equal prize money for
women in championship tournaments
 Academy Award-winning
actress, and humanitarian
 In her teens and twenties,
she suffered from suicidal
depression and abused
drugs
 A Goodwill Ambassador for the
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
 Visiting Darfur, Chad,
Cambodia, Sierra Leone,
Afghanistan and others to raise
awareness for refugees and
landmine removal
 Established several charitable
organizations and has donated
millions of dollars
 Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born in
Tuskegee, Alabama and was a civil rights
activist
 On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery,
Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey
bus driver James Blake's order that she
give up her seat to make room for a white
passenger and her action sparked the
Montgomery Bus Boycott that
desegregated the city’s buses
 She was not the first African American to
refuse to give up her seat, nor was that the
first time she got involved in the Civil
Rights Movement
 Rapper, record producer, and businessman
 Net worth of over $450 million, winner of 13 Grammys,
creator of Rocawear clothing line, and part owner of
the New Jersey Nets
 Donated 1 million dollars to
American Red Cross to assist
with Hurricane Katrina
Disaster Relief
 Actively involved in
politics since 2008.
Encouraged people to
register and vote.
 Arrested and plead
guilty for stabbing a record producer in 1999, 3 years
probation, also brought on charges for Gun Possession.
 Worked with the UN
to raise awareness for clean water throughout the
World. He was made aware of the issue during a visit to
Africa.
 T.I., born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.., is
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a rapper who has had multiple #1 hit
singles
Sentenced to a year and a day of prison
in relation to his arrest in 2007, when
he was caught trying to buy an arsenal
of guns from an undercover FBI agent
Active with Hurricane Katrina relief
efforts
Worked with troubled youths at
Paulding Detention Center in Atlanta,
provided scholarships for single parent
families at Boys and Girls Clubs
Had TV show T.I.’s Road to
Redemption to help troubled teens
 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York
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City and was First Lady to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945
When African American opera singer Marian
Anderson was not allowed to play a concert in
Constitution Hall, Eleanor helped her put on a
concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
She was the 1st ever US delegate (representative)
to the United Nations and became chairman of
the UN Commission on Human Rights
Under President Kennedy, she was chairman of
the Presidential Commission on the Status of
Women
While her husband Franklin had an affair with
his secretary, Eleanor likely had a relationship
with a female journalist (historians disagree over
whether it was sexual)
 Enrique Iglesias was born in Madrid,
Spain and is a Spanish- and Englishlanguage pop singer in the US and
has sold over 100 million albums
worldwide
 He moved to Miami, Florida when he
was 10 and went to the University of
Miami for a business degree
 Performed for soldiers at Help for
Heroes concert
 He pays his taxes
 Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty in Barbados and moved to the
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US at 16 to become a singer
She is the youngest artist ever to have 10 of her singles go to #1 on the
Billboard Hot 100
She started the Believe Foundation in 2006 to help terminally ill
children and has worked with Fashion Against AIDS, Stand Up to
Cancer, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and multiple other
charities
She speaks out on behalf of women who have been beaten by their
partners
While not a citizen, she has a green card to live and work in the US
 4th President of the United States
1809- 1817
 Called the “Father of the Constitution”
because he was the primary author of
the Constitution,
 He is also known as the Great
Compromiser, for his ability to bring
together ideas at the Constitutional
Convention.
 He also authored the Bill of Rights