| A | B |
|---|
| Aaron Copeland & George Gershwin | Music Composers of uniquely American music; |
| Alexander G. Bell | Invented the telephone |
| Andrew Carnegie | “Captain” of the steel industry |
| Bessie Smith | Blues singer and actress |
| Booker T. Washington | AFR-AM equality achieved through vocational education |
| Chief Joseph | Nez Perce leader |
| David Sarnoff | Developed the broadcast industry; founded NBC and led RCA |
| Duke Ellington | Jazz pianist, musician and composer |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Novelist of the Jazz Age |
| Georgia O’Keeffe | Artist - SW and Urban Scenes |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Developed the radio |
| Henry Ford | Used assembly line to mass-produce cars |
| J.D. Rockefeller | “Captain” of the oil industry |
| Jacob Lawrence | Painter of the AFR-AM great migration |
| Jane Addams | Hull House - helped immigrants |
| John Steinbeck | Novelist who wrote about the struggles of poor migrant workers |
| Langston Hughes | Poet who wrote about AFR_AM culture |
| Louis Armstrong | Jazz trumpeter and singer |
| Samuel Gompers | Labor union leader who founded the AFL |
| Susan B. Anthony | Worked to achieve women’s suffrage |
| Thomas Edison | Invented the light bulb and uses for electricty |
| W.E.B. DuBois | AFR-AM should have full civil and social rights |
| William McKinley | President during the Spanish-American War |
| Woodrow Wilson | WWI President; League of Nations |
| Wright Brothers | Achieved the first successful flight |
