Transcript Slide 1 - waxmuseumresearch

Famous Americans
Wilma Rudolph
o Runner
o First American
woman to win 3
gold medals in the
Olympics
Marian Anderson
o Singer
o first AfricanAmerican to
perform with the
New York
Metropolitan Opera
Sandra Day O’Connor
o Judge
o first woman to serve
on the Supreme
Court
Mary McCleod Bethune
o Teacher
o Started a school for
African-American
girls
Ruby Bridges
o Helped to end
segregation in
schools
Susan B. Anthony
o Helped women earn
the right to vote
Sacagawea
o Helped with the
Lewis and Clark
Expedition
Eleanor Roosevelt
o One of the first
“first ladies” to be
come active.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
o Children’s book
author
Juliette Gordon Low
o Founder of the Girl
Scouts
Sally Ride
o Astronaut
• First American
woman in space
Madeline Albright
o First woman to be
Secretary of State
for the United
States of America
Helen Keller
o Author, lecturer, and
activist
o First deaf and blind
person to graduate
from college
Harriett Tubman
o African-American slave
that helped create safehouses on the
Underground Railroad
Condoleezza Rice
o First African-American
woman to be Secretary
of State for the United
States of America
Clara Barton
o Nurse and teacher
o Organized the
American Red Cross
Amelia Earhart
o Pilot
o First woman to fly
across the Atlantic
Ocean
Mae Jemison
o First African American
woman in space
Roberto Clemente
o Major League Baseball
player
o First Latin American
player elected to the
Hall of Fame
Frederick Douglas
o Abolitionist and
author
o Former slave
Walt Disney
o Film maker, producer,
and entrepreneur
o Founder of Disney
products
Louis Armstrong
o Jazz trumpeter and
singer from New
Orleans.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
o Dr. Seuss
o Author and
cartoonist
Jim Henson
o Puppeteer
o Created “The
Muppets”.
Langston Hughes
o Wrote poems, plays,
novels and columns
Jackie Robinson
o Major League Baseball
player
o First African-American
to play Major League
Baseball
Jimmy Carter
o 39th President of the
United States
o From Georgia
Jesse Owens
o Runner
o Won 4 gold medals
in the Olympics
Carter G. Woodson
o Historian, author
and journalist
o Considered the
“father” of Black
History
George Washington Carver
o Scientist
o Promoted different
crops than cotton
(peanuts for
example)
Arthur Ashe
o Tennis player
o Won three Grand
Slam titles
Thurgood Marshall
o Judge
o First AfricanAmerican to serve
on the Supreme
Court
Colin Powell
o A General
o First AfricanAmerican Secretary
of State for the
United States of
American
Ronald Reagan
o 40th President of the
United States of
America
Cesar Chavez
o Mexican-American
farm worker
o Worked for the fair
treatment of other
Mexican-American
farm workers
Muhammad Ali
o Boxer
Babe Ruth
o Baseball player