He was a great American inventor who developed devices such as the phonograph, motion picture camera and the electric light bulb.
Thomas Edison
100
He was an African American scientist and inventor, who is best known for the many uses he devised for peanuts.
George Washington Carver
100
An African American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States.
Ida B. Wells
100
Governor of TN, who helped ratify the 19th Amendment for women suffrage.
Governor Roberts
100
An American aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
200
He created the Model T car and developed the assembly line mode of production.
Henry Ford
200
An African American composer who made Blues music popular in the late 1800's. He had two famous hits, "Memphis Blues" and "St. Louis Blues".
W.C. Handy
200
A Nashville woman suffrage leader who worked in the movement to give women the right to vote.
Anne Dallas Dudley
200
A lawmaker from TN whose vote helped to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
Harry Burn
200
An English inventor who developed an important technique for making steel.
Henry Bessemer
300
He was an American inventor who created the cotton gin and contributed to the "interchangeable parts" system of production.
Eli Whitney
300
A special group of African American soldiers who patrolled the American West after he Civil War.
Buffalo Soldiers
300
A leader of the anti-suffrage movement in TN, who fought against the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Josephine Pearson
300
Tennessee's only World War I general, a U.S. Senator in TN and a successful businessman.
Lawrence Tyson
300
A successful mining engineer and humanitarian who served as the 31st President of the United States.
Herbert Hoover
400
He was one of the primary inventors of the telephone and worked to improve communication for the deaf.
Alexander Graham Bell
400
A former slave and newspaper editor from TN, who published his own newspaper, The Weekly Blade. He spoke out against racial segregation and the unfairness of the Jim Crow Laws.
Randolph Miller
400
A jazz and blues singer from TN who was known as the "Empress of the Blues".
Bessie Smith
400
An American war hero during World War I from TN, who received the Medal of Honor. A film was made about his heroic life.
Alvin C. York
400
A U.S. Army general appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to command the American troops in Europe during World War II.
John J. Pershing
500
He was the inventor of the Kodak camera.
George Eastman
500
An African American educator and leader who founded the Tuskagee Institute.
Booker T. Washington
500
He was an early labor leader who served as president of the American Federation of Labor.
Samuel Gompers
500
A wealth industrialist in railroads and shipping, known as one of America's leading businessmen. He was given the nickname, "Commodore".
Cornelius Vanderbilt
500
A nickname for the men America sent to France during World War I.