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| Ida B. Wells | born into slavery shortly before emancipation, moved to Memphis in the early 1880s to work as a teacher, later becare an editor of a local paper and made racial justice a persistent theme |
| Louis Sullivan | architect who designed the ten-story Wainwright Building in St. Louis, the new breed of skyscraper |
| George Eastman | replaced the heavy glass plates previously required for photography with flexible film |
| Daniel Burnham | designed the Flatiron Building |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright | bicycle manufactures who completed the first successful flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, NC |
| W.E.B. DuBois | 1st African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard; insisted that blacks should be treated as equals immidiately |
| Booker T. Washington | prominent African American educator who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society |
| Mark Twain | novelist who portrayed real and ordinary people in his stories, many of which have become classics of American literature |
| Fredrick Law Olmstead | spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks; helped draw up the plan for "greensward", which was selected to become New York's Central Park |
| William Randolph Hearst | wealthy owner of several newspapers including the New York Morning Journal and the San Francisco Examiner |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian immigrant who bought the New York World in 1883, pioneered popular innovations such as a large Sunday edition, comics, sports coverage, and women's news |
