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the reformer and former President who served as a Massachusetts Congressman and fought the “gag rule”
John Quincy Adams
the artist who painted scenes from the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio river valley
George Caleb Bingham
the Massachusetts teacher and reformer who wanted to improve conditions for prisoners and patients with mental disabilities
Dorothea Dix
the artist who painted scenes of Native American cultures and nations
George Catlin
the first U.S. woman to graduate from a U.S. college with a medical degree
Elizabeth Blackwell
the author of numerous works of literature, including the novel Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
the reformer and abolitionist who published the pamphlet Appeal: to the Colored Citizens of the World
David Walker
the reformer who was the most successful “station master” on the Underground Railroad
Levi Coffin
the most famous artist of the Hudson River School of painters
Thomas Cole
the author of numerous works of literature, including the novel The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
the reformer and abolitionist who escaped slavery and became the nation’s leading anti-slavery speaker
Frederick Douglass
the leading Transcendentalist author and speaker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
the most famous religious leader of the Second Great Awakening
Charles Finney
the most famous U.S. musical composer of the early 1800s
Stephen Foster
the reformer who founded the nation’s first school for deaf students
Dr. Thomas Gallaudet
the reformer who founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society and published the nation’s leading anti-slavery newspaper
William Lloyd Garrison
the author of numerous works of literature, including the novel The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
the reformer who founded the nation’s first school for blind / visually-impaired students
Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe
the author of numerous works of literature, including the short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”
Washington Irving
the author of numerous works of poetry, including “The Song of Hiawatha” and “Paul Revere’s Ride”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Weld: the reformers (two sisters and one of their husbands) who were abolitionists and famous members of the New England Anti-Slavery Society
Angelina and Sarah Grimke, Theodore
two authors who wrote anti-slavery poetry
Frances Watkins Harper and John Greenleaf Whittier
the reformers who were the co-founders of the U.S. women’s rights movement
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
the Transcendentalist author who wrote Walden
Henry David Thoreau
the reformer and escaped slave who was the most famous “guide” on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman