50 American Heroes
Jane Addams: progressive era , women’s rights, FDR
2. Susan B. Anthony: women’s rights activity
3. Clara Barton: red cross
4. Mary McLeod Bethune: Black woman. Formed a college. Political
activist.
5. Alexander Graham Bell
6. Rachel Carson: Mother of the environmental movement
7. Jimmy Carter
8. George Washington Carver: Black educator, scientist.
9. Eli Whitney: cotton gin.
10. Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta: United Farm workers union and
Hispanic rights
11. Roberto Clemente: Baseball player and philanthropist.
12. Bill Cosby
13. Walt Disney
14. Frederick Douglass
15. Thomas Edison
16. Albert Einstein
17. Benjamin Franklin
18. John Glenn: Astronaut. 1st man on the moon.
19. Martha Graham: dancer/choreographer-20. Matthew Henson: black man on polar expedition. 1st to reach the
north pole.
21. Milton Hershey: Chocolate
22. Langston Hughes: black poet.
23. Thomas Jefferson
24. Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan: women’s rights, philanthropist.
25. Jackie Joyner-Kersee: sports illustrated greatest woman athlete of the
century
26. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
27. Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea
28. Robert E. Lee: confederate General
29. Abraham Lincoln
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Mark Twain: author.
31. George Marshall: Military General. Rebuilt Western Europe after WW2
32. John Muir: conservationist.
33. Sandra Day O'Connor: 1st female supreme court justice
34. Rosa Parks
35. Henry Ford
36. Christopher Reeve: Actor and philanthropist.
37. George Eastman: Kodak founder
38. Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey
39. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans: performers who celebrated the cowboy
ear.
40. Eleanor Roosevelt: Wife of FDR. Used her role as 1st lady as a
platform for humanitarian causes.
41. Franklin D. Roosevelt
42. Theodore Roosevelt
43. Jonas Salk: polio vaccine.
44. Thurgood Marshall: lawyer and first black supreme court justice.
45. Harry Truman: president of the US at the End of WW2.
46. Harriet Tubman: underground railroad.
47. George Washington
48. Babe Ruth
49. Louis Armstrong
50. Wilbur and Orville Wright
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