Student Resources / Famous People

Famous People

African Americans	Early Americans	Explorers
Famous Women	Presidents

African Americans

Arthur Ashe	http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/features/1997/arthurashe/biography.html
Booker T. Washington	http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbooker.htm
George Washington Carver	http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa041897.htm
Harriet Tubman	http://www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm
Jackie Robinson	http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Robinson.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0109
Martin Luther King, Jr.	http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/
Martin Luther King, Jr.	http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
Matthew Ashby	http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/bioash.cfm
Pearl Bailey	http://www.norfolk.gov/WalkOfFame/Pearl_Bailey.asp
Rosa Parks	http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
Thurgood Marshall	http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/home.htm

Early Americans

Benjamin Franklin	http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/index.htm
George Washington	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html
Thomas Jefferson	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
Betsy Ross	http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/
Betsy Ross	http://www.usflag.org/about.betsy.ross.html
Susan B. Anthony	http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.html
Susan B. Anthony	http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/PictureGallery/anthony.html
Abigail Adams	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/aa2.html

Explorers

Christopher Columbus	http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/columbus.shtml
Christopher Newport	http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/indexn.shtml
Ponce de Leon	http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/d/deleon.shtml
Lewis and Clark	http://www.lewis-clark.org/
	http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/journey_intro.html

Famous Women

Betsy Ross	http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/
	http://www.usflag.org/about.betsy.ross.html
Susan B. Anthony	http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.html
	http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/PictureGallery/anthony.html
	http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
Rosa Parks	http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
Jane Addams	http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html
Clara Barton	http://www.civilwarhome.com/bartonbio.htm
	http://americancivilwar.com/women/cb.html
Abigail Adams	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/aa2.html
Eleanor Roosevelt	http://www.udhr.org/history/Biographies/bioer.htm
Harriet Tubman	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html
Pocahontas	http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html

Presidents

The Presidents of the United States	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
Presidential Facts and Trivia	http://www.classroomhelp.com/lessons/Presidents/index.html
Barack Obama	http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president_obama/
George W. Bush	http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
William (Bill) Clinton	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/bc42.html
George H. W. Bush	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gb41.html
Ronald Reagan	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rr40.html
Jimmy Carter	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jc39.html
Gerald R. Ford	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gf38.html
Richard M. Nixon	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rn37.html
Lyndon Johnson	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/lj36.html
John F. Kennedy	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html
Dwight Eisenhower	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/de34.html
Harry S. Truman	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ht33.html
Woodrow Wilson	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ww28.html
Ulysses S. Grant	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ug18.html
Andrew Johnson	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj17.html
Abraham Lincoln	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html
James Monroe	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm5.html
James Madison	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm4.html
Thomas Jefferson	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
John Adams	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja2.html
George Washington	http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html

Last Modified on August 24, 2012