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| Louis Sullivan | architect who designed the ten-story Wainwright Building in St. Louis |
| Daniel Burnham | designed the Flatiron Building |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | landscape architect who helped spearhead the movement for planned urban parks |
| Calvert Vaux | he and Olmstead helped draw up a plan for "Greensward" which became Central Park in New York City |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | he planned landscaping for Washington, DC, St. Louis, and the parks system in Boston |
| Daniel Burnham | "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood." This quote was used to described the remaking of Chicago and the White City |
| Orville & Wilbur Wright | these brothers were bicycle manufacturers from Dayton, Ohio who made history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903 |
| George Eastman | he developed an alternative to heavy glass plates used by photographers and in 1888 he introduced the Kodak camera for $25 |
| Andrew Carnegie | he pointed out that keeping workers loyal to capitalism required society to "provide ladders upon which the aspiring can rise" |
| Booker T. Washington | believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society |
| W.E.B. DuBois | he was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard |
| W.E.B. DuBois | he founded the Niagara Movement in 1905 that insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the African-American community would have well-educated leaders |
| Ida B. Wells | this woman was a teacher and later became an editor of a local paper...she led the crusade against lynching by writing, lecturing, and organizing for civil rights |
| Homer Plessy | in 1892 he took a seat in the "Whites Only" car of a train and refused to moved...his case resulted in a Supreme Court case that ruled that separate-but-equal facilities for blacks and whites did not violate the Constitution |
| Alexander J. Cartwright | in 1845 he organized a club in New York City and set down the rules for a game which became known as baseball |
| Joseph Pulitzer | a Hungarian immigrant who bought the newspaper the NEW YORK WORLD which emphasized "sin, sex, and sensation" |
| William Randolph Hearst | he purchased the NEW YORK MORNING JOURNAL which competed with the New York World paper |
| Thomas Eakins | this artist from Philadelphia embraced an artistic movement called realism which attempted to portray life as it is really lived |
| Robert Henri | this man was a student of Thomas Eakins and led the ASHCAN SCHOOL of American art which painted urban life and working people with gritty realism and no thrills |
| Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | this African American was a popular tap dancer |
