Champions
Created National Parks System; protected Americans from harmful food and medicine
Who is President Roosevelt?
teacher and author; helped people who were blind and deaf
Who is Helen Keller?
Freed slave who became a teacher; supported vocational education; founded a college for black students
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Inventor and businessman; changed the way Americans communicated
Someone who moves to find work.
What is a migrant?
1st Black man to play baseball; fought for equality
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Fought for migrant farm workers; founded United Farm Workers union
Who is Dolores Huerta?
Scientist, inventor, teacher; discovered many new uses for plants
Who is George Washing Carver?
Medical researcher; created first effective vaccine (polio) in 1955
Who is Jonas Salk?
Keeping people or groups apart.
What is segregation?
A peaceful, powerful speaker and leader; lead a march in Washington
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
A Hawaiian solider of Japanese descent served in WW2; worked in Congress
Who is Senator Daniel Inouye?
Created over 1,000 life-changing inventions: phonograph, electric systems, longer-lasting lightbulbs.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Co-founder and CEO of Apple Computer, Inc.; industrial designer: MacBook, iPod, iPhone
Refusing to do business with someone in protest.
What is boycott?
Helped change segregation laws; joined in the bus boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
Started the Space Race; served in WW2; fought for equal rights
Who is President Kennedy?
A mathematician and aerospace engineer; "human computer"; became NASA's first Black female engineer.
Who is Mary Jackson?
Brothers who designed, built, and tested gliders; flew first powered airplanes.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
A medical treatment to protect people from diseases.
What is a vaccine?
1st Black supreme court justice; worked to change unfair laws
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
1st Black president; created health care programs; helped US Veterans
Who is President Obama?
A pilot and an astronaut for NASA; became one of the first people to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
A pioneer in aviation; 1st woman pilot to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean
Who is Amelia Earhart?
A new or a different way to solve a problem.
What is innovation?