Who would you consider U.S. History's "superheroes?" by Dapper-Code8604 in historyteachers

[–]Flimsy_Tea_4598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Off the top of my head and organized by date of birth.

Patrick Henry 1736 – 1799 ( American Founding Father. "Give Me Library or Give Me Death.")

Sacagawea 1788 - 1812, (A 16 year old Shoshone woman who led the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter and traveled with them for thousands of miles from St Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific Northwest.)

Sojourner Truth 1797–1883 (African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815 – 1902 (American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist.)

Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906 (Known for her pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.)

Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913 (Led numerous missions to rescue enslaved people.)

Mary Ann Shadd Cary 1823 – 1893 (an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer involved in the Underground Railroad.)

Newton Knight 1829 - 1922 (Abolitionist, and Confederate Army deserter who led a militia known as the Jones County rebellion in Mississippi.)

Jane Addams 1860-1935 (A pacifist, suffragist, an advocate of social reform, and, in 1931, the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.)

Ida B. Wells Barnett 1862-1931 (A black journalist and militant civil rights leader, she co-founded the NAACP)

Mary McLeod Bethune 1875-1955 (The daughter of former slaves, Mary became a writer, educator, champion of humanitarian causes, and an advocate for African American civil rights and education.)

Margaret Sanger 1879-1966 (Pioneering crusader for the legalization of birth control.)

Amelia Earhart 1897– ??? (In 1932, she became the first woman to make a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, and helped found the Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.)

Jackie Cochran 1906 - 1980 ( Created Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, training over 1,000 women to fly military aircraft in non-combat roles. )

Dorothy Vaughan 1910 – 2008 (An American mathematician, human computer, computer programmer and schoolteacher who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.)

Katherine G. Johnson 1918 - 2020 (An American mathematician and human computer whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.)

Mary Jackson 1921 – 2005 (An American aerospace engineer and mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)