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Aretha Franklin | Queen of Soul. |
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward | Journalists who investigated Watergate scandal deeper and revealed the whole affair |
Billie Jean King | Woman tennis player who led movement to have women participate in sports and other atheltics |
Sidney Poitier | Famous African American actor |
Gerald Ford | When Sprio Agnew resigned, he became vice president and when Nixon resigned he became president. Never elected, only appointed. |
Maggie Kuhn | Leader of the Grey Panthers |
Evel Knievel | Stunt devil who barely missed his jump over Idaho's Snake River Canyon |
Phyllis Schafly | Leader of anti-feminist movement. Believed women should stay in subordinate roles in society. aka "Sweetheard of the Silent Majority" |
Muhammad Ali | Famous African American boxer |
Shirely Chisholm | First African American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives |
Cesar Chavez | Used non violent ways to achieve goals of higher wages and other benefits for migrant workers in California |
Andrew Young | First African American male elected to the U.S House of Representatives |
Jimmy Carter | President who promised the American people he would never lie to them |
Richard Nixon | Planned watergate. First president to resign while facing impeachment charges |
Stephen Spielberg | Director of the famous mocie Jaws, released in 1975 |
Don McLean | Writer and singer of "American Pie". |
Joseph Colombo | Ex-Mafia boss led Italian Civil Rights Movement |
Richard Bach | Author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
Alexander Butterfield | Leaked oval office tapes during Watergate scandal |