People Who Made A Difference

Alice Paul- Helped to ratify the 19th amendment. She was born January 11, 1885.
Margaret Sanger-  Parents were politically active in women's rights.  Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse.
Deganawidah-  Was born in the 13th or 14th century.   Orator and statesman who founded the Haudenosaunee, with Hiawatha. 
Andrew Carnegie-  Born in Scotland in 1845.  Led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
Eva Peron- Born May 7th, 1919.   She was credited with gaining the right to vote for Argentine women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe-   Was an American abolitionist and author.  She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin: depiction of life for African Americans under slavery.
John Keynes-  Was a British economist whose ideas have fundamentally affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, and informed the economic policies of governments.  He died April 21, 1946.
Eugene V. Debs- Born on November 5, 1855.  He quit school at the age of 14.
Betty Williams- Won the Noble Peace Prize in 1976.  Cofounder of Community of Peace People.
Emmeline Pankhurst-  Was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote.  She died on June 14, 1928. 
Helena Rubinstein- She was the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein, Incorporated, which made her one of the world's richest women.  In 1908, she married American journalist Edward William Titus in London.
Edward Jenner- Was an English physician and scientist from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine.  He is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other man".
Dolores Huerta-  She was born April 10, 1930.  Was a labor leader and civil rights activist.