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George Eastman | inventor of roll-film camera |
Marshall Field | opened the nation's first department store in Chicago |
Frederick Law Olmstead | landscape architect that lead the movement for planned urban parks |
Louis Sullivan | designed the first skyscraper |
W.E.B. DuBois | thought educated blacks should immediately join the mainstream of society |
Orville and Wilbur Wright | developed the first powered airplane |
Ida B. Wells | tried to end the lynching of African Americans by writing and lecturing |
Mark Twain | He was a novelist and humorist that wrote books that have become American classics |
Booker T Washington | Founded the Tuskegee Institute to help African Americans develop useful job skills |
William Randolph Hearst | In competion with Joseph Pulitzer, he published sensational stories in his newspapers |