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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 |