People Who Made A Difference

Alice Paul
- She grew up in New Jersey.
- She was a very influential women's rights activist.

Margaret Sanger
- She was born in 1879.
- She was very big on pushing birth control. This is what she is best-known for.

Deganawidah "The Great Peacemaker"
- He was a spiritual healer.
- He helped start the Iroquios League.
- He was born in the 13th or 14th century.

Eva Perone
- She was born May 7, 1919.
- She moved to Buenos Aires at the age of 15 to become an actress.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
- She was an American-abolitionist and an author.
- Her mom passed when she was only 4 years old.

Jon Keynes
-Very socialistic in thoughts, gov't should give people money.
- Suffered from a series of heart attacks.

Frances Willard
- Best-known for her help in passing the 18th and 19th amendments.
- Spent most of her childhood in Wisconsin.

Eugene V. Debbs
- Born in 1855 in Indiana.
-Quit school at the age of 14 to become railroad hand.

Betty Williams
- Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976
- Co-founder of Community of Peace People

Emmeline Pankhurst
- She married Richard Pankhurst
- British Political Activist

Helena Rubinstein
- Specialized in health and medical research.
- Started the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.

Edward Jenner
- Went off to study surgery at the age of 14.
- Developed the word vaccine.
- Developed the Smallpox vaccine.

Delores Huerta
- Worked as an elementary school teacher.
- She is a labor leader and civil rights activist.

Tagore
- Born in 1841
- Made over 2500 works during the Renaissance.

Dorothy Hodgkin
- Her father was an archaeologist.
- She decided to take chemistry in school, rather than archaeology.
- Credited with X-ray crystallography.