Monday, October 14, 2013

People Who Made A Difference

Margaret Sanger
-Born in 1879
-Best known for her views on women's control of their own bodies

Deganawidah "The Great Peacemaker"
- He was all about Spiritual Healing and junk
- Made peace by starting the Iroquois Confederacy

Andrew Carnegie
-He was a steel tycoon
-Started working for a Railroad Company at 13

Eva Perone
-Born May 7, 1919
-Husband was President and she did woman's rights things.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
-American Abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
-Born 1811 

 Jon Keynes
-Very Socialist; believed the government should give people money
-Suffered from series of heart attacks

Frances Willard
-Passed away in 1898
-Woman's Rights Suffragist

Eugene V. Debbs
-Born in Indianna
-Founding member of Industrial Workers of The World

Betty Williams
-Co-founder of Community of Peace People
-Won Nobel Peace Prize in 1976

Emmeline Pankhurst
-Born in Manchester in 1858
-British Political Activist

Dwayne Johnson
-Professional Wrestler
-Was on Miami's National Championship team in 1991.

Helena Rubinstein
-Started from the bottom and now she is here. Also started Helena Rubinstein Foundation
- Specialized in health and medical research.

Edward Jenner
-May 17, 1779 Born
-Studied Surgery and made the Smallpox Vaccination

Dolores Huerta
-Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist
-Formed UFW

Rabindranath Tagore
-Born May 7, 1861
-Reshaped his regions literature and music

Dorothy Hodgkin
- Born May 12, 1910
-She developed X-Ray Crystallography



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