Alice Paul
1. led a women's right movement
2. Grew up in New Jersey
Deganawidah
1. member of the Iroquois tribe
2. He created a powerful alliance between the Iroquois confederacy
Andrew Carnegie
1. Wealthiest man at the turn of the 20th century
2. Steel tycoon
Eva Perone
1. Born May 7, 1919
2. Married the man that became president of Argentina
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1. Best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin
2. Born in Connecticut
John Keynes
1. He was an economist
2. Married a Russian ballerina
Frances Willard
1. Key to passage of 18th and 19th amendment
2. Died in 1898
Eugene Debbs
1. Born in Indiana in 1855
2. Quit school at the age of 14
Betty Williams
1. Co founder of community of peace people
2. Won Nobel Peace Prize in 1976
Emmeline Pankhurst
1. Married Richard Pankhurst
2. Arrested several times for her suffrage strikes
Helenna Rubinstein
1. Founded an organization for health and rehabilitation
2. Born in Poland in 1870
Edward Jenner
1. Became the founder of the smallpox vaccine
2. Studied surgery at 14
Dolores Huerta
1. She started as an elementary school teacher
2. She was a labor leader and civil rights activist
Tagore
1. Born in 1841
2. Helped spark the renaissance in Asia
Dorthy Hotchkins
1. father was an archaeologist
2. She invented x ray cristalology
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