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People to Know
Grade 6
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Social worker who helped immigrants
Founder of the settlement house, Hull
house
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American inventor of the telephone
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American pioneer in the use of electricity
Inventor of the light bulb
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Nez Perce leader who conducted a skillful
but unsuccessful retreat from U.S. forces
after the Civil War
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African American educator who believed
equality could be achieved through
vocational education
 Accepted social segregation
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“Captain of Industry”
 Industrial leader who made millions in
steel industry
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Who am I?
“Captain of Industry”
 American automobile manufacturer who
perfected the assembly line technique of
mass production for Model T automobile
 Invented the assembly line
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“Captain of Industry”
 Founder of the Standard Oil company
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Black author, teacher, and founder of
NAACP (National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People)
 Believed in full political, civil, and social
rights for African Americans
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U.S. President who proposed creation of
League of Nations following World War I
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Improved communication in the early 20th
century through development of the radio
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Improved communication in the early 20th
century by developing the broadcast
industry
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Jazz composer of the Harlem Renaissance
Primary instrument was the trumpet
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Composer who wrote unique Modern
American music
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American jazz composer of Harlem
Renaissance
He was a band leader and primarily played
the piano
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Early 20th century novelist who wrote about
the Jazz Age of the 1920’s
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Composer who wrote unique American
music, mostly Jazz
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Well-known poet of Harlem Renaissance
Combined the experiences of African and
American cultural roots
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Painter who chronicled the experience of
the Great Migration north through art
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Early 20th century artist known for her
urban scenes and later paintings of the
Southwest
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Blues singer of the Harlem Renaissance
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Early 20th century novelist who portrayed
the strength of poor migrant workers during
the 1930’s
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British Prime Minister during World War II
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Fascist dictator of Germany during World
War II who founded Nazi party
Used fear and anger to blame Jews and
other minorities for all of German’s
problems
Responsible for the Holocaust
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U.S. President who proposed “New Deal” as way
of getting country out of Great Depression
Known for motto, “The only thing we have to fear
is fear itself.”
Served during first part of World War II
Also known for his speech to Congress asking to
enter into World War II following the bombing of
Pearl Harbor (“December 7, 1941, a date which
will live in infamy.”)
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Soviet Union Allied leader during World
War II
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Fascist dictator of Japan during World War
II
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U.S. President during World War II
Advocated “containment” of Communism
Supported NATO
Sent American troops to fight in Korean
War
Desegregated the U.S. Armed Forces after
World War II
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Developed plan to rebuild Europe after
World War II (Marshall Plan)
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Activist First Lady
Wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Worked to expand women’s rights
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African American Civil Rights activist who
participated in Montgomery Bus boycott by
refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to
a white passenger
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Fascist dictator of Italy during World War II
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Invented the airplane
Jane Addams
www.ssw.umich.edu/.../ fall2001/briefhistory.html
Alexander Graham Bell
www.hill.af.mil/ museum/history/agbell.htm
Thomas A. Edison
www.cojeco.cz/index. php?detail=1&s_lang=2&id_...
Chief Joseph
www.yale.edu/.../ may1text/may1text.html
Booker T. Washington
www.lib.duke.edu/.../ history/washington_bt.htm
Andrew Carnegie
www.americaslibrary.gov/ aa/carnegie/aa_carneg...
Henry Ford
www.americaslibrary.gov/ jb/civil/jb_civil_for...
John D. Rockefeller
us.history.wisc.edu/.../ lectures/lecture05.html
W.E.B. DuBois
students.washcoll.edu/ Club.Pages/dubois/
Woodrow Wilson
www.jhu.edu/ ~debate/html/x.html
Guglielmo Marconi
www.nrao.edu/whatisra/ hist_prehist-s.shtml
David Sarnoff
www.museum.tv/.../ sarnoffdavi/sarnoffdavi.htm
Louis Armstrong
www.yellow-springs.k12.oh.us/ ys-mls/african.htm
Aaron Copeland
memory.loc.gov/ammem/ achtml/acbirthday.html
Duke Ellington
www.authentichistory.com/ audio/1930s/music/19...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
www.princeton.edu/.../ a-f/fitzgerald-f-scott/
George Gershwin
www.wbur.org/special/ jewsandblues/index2.asp
Langston Hughes
www.oberlin.edu/.../ 200211/logan_and_hughes.html
Jacob Lawrence
www.whitney.org/.../ art/migration_series.html
Georgia O’Keeffe
www.fembio.org/women/ georgia-o-keeffe.shtml
Bessie Smith
www.wbur.org/special/ jewsandblues/index2.asp
John Steinbeck
http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/john.steinbeck.asp
Winston Churchill
www.aristos.org/ whatart/karsh.htm
Adolf Hitler
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ USA/USA-E-Supreme/
Franklin D. Roosevelt
www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/ roosevelt-franklin.htm
Joseph Stalin
www.xtec.es/~lvallmaj/ preso/totalita.htm
Hideki Tojo
http://tojo-hideki.wikiverse.org/
Harry Truman
www.multied.com/ Bio/people/Truman.html
George C. Marshall
www.britannica.com/ nobel/micro/378_19.html
Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/eleanor.htm
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Rosa Parks
www.africawithin.com/ bios/rosa_parks.htm
Benito Mussolini
www.reformation.org/ vatican_city_state.html
Wilbur and Orville Wright
www.pocanticohills.org/ wright/photogallery.htm
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