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Paul Revere
(Independence). He was a Silversmith and was well known for his "Midnight Ride" screaming, "The British are coming!" -
Midnight Ride
Paul Revere warned the people of Concord that the British were coming. -
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Frederick Douglass
(Civil Rights). He was lonely. He was born in Maryland. He died in Washington D.C, at the age of 77. He had five childred and also helped to end slavery. -
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Susan B. Anthony
(Women's Rights). She was an abolotionist, and speaker and president of the National American Women Suffarage Association -
Emancipation Proclamation
Douglass consulted with President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and helped influence the Emancipation Proclamation. After President Lincoln’s death, Mrs. Lincoln sent Douglass her late husband’s walking stick. -
Women's Rights
She helped establish the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 with Stanton, calling for the same rights to be granted to all regardless of race or sex. -
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Mary McLeod Bethune
(Education). She was an African American Civil Rights leader. She started a school for African American Girls. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
(New Deal and WWII). He bacme the 32nd president of the U.S. He died in Warm Springs, GA from Polio. He helped a lot of poor people too. -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
(United Nations and human rights) She was the wife of FDR, and they had six children. She became chairwoman at the while house. -
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Thurgood Marshall
(civil rights). He became the first African American Supreme Court Justice. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
(Great Society and voting rights) He became president in 1960, because JFK was killed. He would start his Great Society program to help people. -
Eleanor changed the role of First Lady
After her husband suffered a polio attack in 1921, Eleanor stepped forward to help Franklin with his political career. -
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Cesar Chavez
(worker's rights) Parents didnt' have enough money, so they sold their barn. He helped farm workers receive fair pay. He started boycotts and unions to help them. -
Bethune and Roosevelt
In 1935, Bethune became a special advisor to President Roosevelt on minority affairs. That same year, she also started up her own civil rights organization, the National Council of Negro Women. -
FDR and WWII
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to be elected four times. He led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II. -
Chavez and first union
After working as a community and labor organizer in the 1950s, Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. This union joined with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in its first strike against grape growers in California in 1965 -
Great Society by LBJ
In 1965, Johnson pushed a sweeping legislative agenda known as the "Great Society," which would become the most ambitious and far-reaching domestic program in the nation's history. -
Marshall was appointed by LBJ to Supereme Court
Argued 32 cases in the Supreme Court.
