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18 Cards in this Set
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; worked for racial equality and was US representative to the UN (United Nations) |
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Harriet Tubman |
"conductor" on the Underground Railroad; led more than 300 slaves to freedom |
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Rosa Parks |
Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, sparked the modern day civil rights movement |
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Martin Luther King, Jr |
Civil rights leader who used non-violent protests to work for an end to discrimination |
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Barack Obama |
First black American president; president is currently serving his second term |
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Colin Powell |
four star general in US army; was the first black Secretary of State in the US |
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Susan B. Anthony |
campaigned for gender equality; inspired a nationwide suffrage (voting) movement |
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Juliette Gordon Low |
founded the Girl Scouts in 1912 |
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Sally K.Ride |
American astronaut; campaigned for improved science education in America |
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Clara Barton |
organized and delivered important aid to Union and Confederate soldiers; started the American Red Cross |
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Mary K. Ash |
an entrepreneur who started the Mary Kay cosmetics company |
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Helen Keller |
deaf and blind because of childhood disease; overcame her disabilities and then worked for the blind |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder |
author of the "Little House" books, which described pioneer life in the 1800's |
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woman's suffrage |
the right for woman to vote |
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braille |
an alphabet system which allows the blind to read |
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equality |
equal treatment for all people |
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discrimination |
treating a person or group of people unfairly because of difference |
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Underground Railroad |
a system of secret routes and safe houses used to free black slaves in the 1840's through the 1860's |
