This Civil rights activist refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end racial segregation.
This entrepreneur built a profitable cosmetics business from scratch that created new opportunities for women to achieve financial success.
The 'Godfather of Soul' was a prolific singer, songwriter and bandleader; one of the most iconic figures in funk and soul music. He wrote and sang 'l Got You (I Feel Good).'
He is a Baptist minister and social activist who nonviolently led the Civil Rights Movement in the US until his assassination in 1968.
In 1850, while professor of chemistry at the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University), he invented the inverted microscope. He also discovered the mineral liebigite.
He was a Golden-Globe winning actor (Ghost, Dirty Dancing), as well as a singer, songwriter, and dancer, who died of pancreatic cancer in September of 2009.
The 4th U.S. president is known as the 'Father of the Constitution,' and was the key champion and author of the Bill of Rights.
This American educator overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century's leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
This billionaire is best known for hosting her own internationally popular talk show from 1986 to 2011. She is also an actress, philanthropist, publisher and producer.
She is author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (1960).
Considered one of the most influential artists in jazz history, he is known for songs such as 'What a Wonderful World'.
Of peanut farm fame, the 39th president of the United States (1977-81) created the Department of Energy and the Department of Education, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
The 42nd president of the United States, and the second to be impeached, he oversaw the country's longest peacetime economic expansion.
Writing short stories and novels about the American South, her novel 'The Optimist's Daughter' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
A Nobel Prize-winning novelist of the American South who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County; wrote 'The Sound and the Fury.'
With his 'Contract with America,' this former Speaker of the House established his position as the head of the anti-Clinton Republican wave in 1994.
A leading spokesman for Christian values, he was an evangelist at revival meetings, and on radio and television for over 40 years.
He was elected vice president of the U.S. in 1960 and became the 36th president in 1963, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The 'King of the Blues' began as a disc jockey in Memphis before finding fame as a blues and R&B guitarist, with hits like 'The Thrill Is Gone.'
He was the leading Confederate General during the U.S. Civil War and has been venerated as a heroic figure in the South.
He is a civil rights activist who became the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962.
A prominent Roman Catholic short story author of the 20th century, she wrote about religious themes and southern life, often in southern gothic style.
The 'King of Rock and Roll' was also an actor; he endured rapid fame in the mid-1950s—on the radio, TV and the silver screen.
She has been one of the most successful—and sometimes controversial—solo acts in popular music. Her first album is titled: '...Baby One More Time.'
This U.S. senator was known for his pro-segregation policies and long-running tenure in Congress. It was later revealed he had a biracial daughter.
The 'King of the Hillbillies' became one of America's first country music superstars, with hits like 'Your Cheatin' Heart,' before his early death at 29.
A frontiersman, legendary folk hero and three-time Congressman, he fought in the War of 1812 and died at the Alamo in the Texas Revolution.
An adventurer and intellectual, he wrote the classic American novels 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.'
The 28th U.S. president led America through WW I and crafted the Versailles Treaty's 'Fourteen Points,' creating a League of Nations to ensure world peace.
Appointed in 1991, he is the second African-American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
She escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist, bringing hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.
This surgeon and pharmacist is now known as the inventor of anesthesia, for his first use of inhaled sulfuric ether.
This airman and pharmacist created sunscreen, originally for military use, in 1944.
This businessman and inventor is best known as the inventor of an airtight plastic container for storing food.
This pharmacist invented Coca-Cola.
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