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John Quincy Adams Frederick Douglass Wheelan, Joseph. Mr. Adams’s Last Crusade: John Douglass, Frederick and Gates, Henry Louis. Narrative Quincy Adams’s Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Congress. New York: Public Affairs, 2008. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1994. “ (1767-1848).” The Massachusetts Thomas, Sandra. Frederick Douglas: Abolitionist/ Historical Society. 2003. http://www.masshist.org/bh/ Editor. http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/ jqabio.html douglass/home.html “Frederick Douglas (1818-1895).” PBS Online. http:// Andrew Carnegie www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html Edge, Laura Bufano. Andrew Carnegie: Industrial Philanthropist. Minnesota: Lerner Publications, 2004. “Andrew Carnegie.” http://www.americaslibrary.gov/ Stross, Randall E. The Wizard of Menlo Park: How aa/carnegie/aa_carnegie_subj.html Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008. Cesar Chavez “Edison: The Life of Thomas A. Edison.” http:// memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edbio.html Etulain, Richard W. Cesar Chavez: A Brief Biography with Documents. (The Bedford Series in History and Culture). New York: St. Martins Press, 2002. Gloria Estefan “Cesar Chavez.” Contemporary Hispanic Biography. “Artists: Gloria Estefan.” http://www.billboard.com/ Vol. 2 Gale Group, 2002. Reproduced in Biography artist/302943/gloria-estefan/biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: The “Gloria Estefan.” http://www.biography.com/people/ Gale Group. 2004. gloria-estefan-9542436

Henry Clay Peterson, Merrill D. The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Clay, and Calhoun. Oxford University Press, 1987. Franklin. New York: McMillan, 1962. “The Day Died, June 29, 1852.” http:// Srodes, James. Franklin: The Essential Founding Father. www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_ Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2002. claydied_2.html Benjamin Franklin: An Extraordinary Life, An Extraordinary Mind. http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/ Roberto Clemente “Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente.” Fannie Lou Hamer http://www.robertoclemente.si.edu/english/index.htm “Summary Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, 1918- “Roberto Clemente.” http://www.biography.com/ 1977.” http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/127. people/roberto-clemente-9250805 html Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, DNConvention. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ fannielouhamercredentialscommittee.htm Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. Thomas Jefferson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1997. Charlottesville: Press, 1990. Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Labunski, Richard. James Madison and the Struggle Declaration of Independence. New York: Vintage, 1998. for the Bill of Rights (Pivotal Moments in American Wills, Gary. Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration History). Oxford University Press, 2008 of Independence. Boston: Mariner , 2002 Leibiger, Stuart. Founding Friendship: George Yarbrough, Jean. American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the on the Character of a Free People. Lawrence: The American Republic (Constitutionalism and Democracy University press of Kansas, 1998. Series). University of Virginia Press, 2001. “Thomas Jefferson.” http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ “The Papers of James Madison.” http://www.virginia. jefferson/ edu/pjm/

Martin Luther King Thurgood Marshall Frady, Marshall. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life Williams, Juan. Thurgood Marshall: American (Penguin Lives Biographies). New York: Penguin, 2005. Revolutionary. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000. “Martin Luther King Jr., The Nobel Peace Prize “Thurgood Marshall: Associate Justice 1964.” http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/ Supreme Court.” http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ laureates/1964/king-bio.html tmarsh.htm The King Center. http://www.thekingcenter.org/

James Armistead Lafayette Soderlund, Jean R. and Richard S. Dunn, Eds. William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: 1680-1684. “James Armistead, Patriot Spy.” http:// Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Historical Society, 1999. www.time.com/time/specials/packages/ article/0,28804,1963424_1963480_1963442,00.html “William Penn, Proprietor.” http://xroads.virginia. edu/~CAP/PENN/pnintro.html “Revolutionary War: James Armistead Lafayette” https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/6-12th-grade/ operation-history/revolutionary-war.html Rosa Parks “A Guide to Materials for Rosa Parks.” http://www.loc. gov/rr/program/bib/rosaparks/rosaparks.html Farber, Daniel A. Lincoln and the Constitution. “The Story Behind the Bus.” http://www.thehenryford. University of Chicago Press, 2004. org/exhibits/rosaparks/story.asp Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years. Orlando: Harcourt, 1964. Jackie Robinson “Abraham Lincoln: Leader for all Ages, by Edwin Robinson, Jackie. I Never Had It Made: An Meese.” http://www.claremont.org/publications/ Autobiography of Jackie Robinson. New York: pubid.493/pub_detail.asp HarperCollins, 1995. “Teaching with Documents: Beyond the Playing Field – Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate.” The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. http:// www.archives.gov/education/lessons/jackie-robinson/ Benjamin Rush Harriet Tubman “Benjamin Rush” http://billofrightsinstitute.org/ Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to resources/educator-resources/founders/benjamin- Freedom. New York: Back Bay Books, 2005. rush/ “Harriet Tubman.” Africans in America, PBS Online “Penn Biographies: Benjamin Rush (1746-1813)” Series. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535. http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/rush_ html benj.html Elizabeth Cady Stanton Brookheiser, Richard. Founding Father: Rediscovering McMillan, Sally. Seneca Falls and the Origins of the George Washington. New York: Free Press, 1997. Women’s Rights Movement. (Pivotal Moments in McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of George American History). Oxford University Press, 2008. Washington. University Press of Kansas, 1988. “Elizabeth Cady Stanton.” http://www.nps.gov/wori/ Morgan, Edmund. The Genius of George Washington. historyculture/elizabeth-cady-stanton.htm W.W. Norton & Company, 1982. The Farewell Address: Washington’s Final Manuscript. http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/farewell/ Boydston, Jeanne; Kelley, Mary; and Margolis, Anne. transcript.html The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women’s Rights and Woman’s Sphere. University of North Ida B. Wells Carolina Press, 1988. Wells, Ida B. and Alfreda M. Duster, Ed. The Crusade “Harriet Beecher Stowe: 1811-1896.” A Celebration of for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Women Writers. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma97/ University of Chicago Press, 1991. riedy/hbs.html “Jim Crow Stories: Ida B. Wells.” http://www.pbs.org/ wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_wells.html Mary Beth Tinker

Johnson, John. The Struggle for Student Rights: Tinker V. Des Moines and the 1960s (Landmark Law Cases and American Society). University of Kansas Press, 1997. Howard, Fred. Wilbur and Orville Wright: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. Courier Dover Publications, “Case Summary: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent 1998. Community School District.” http://www. freedomforum.org/packages/first/Curricula/ The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial EducationforFreedom/supportpages/L08- Age. http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/who/ CaseSummaryTinker.htm index.cfm

Mary Tsukamoto “Mary Tsukamoto (1915-1998), Educator, Writer and Cultural Historian.” http://www.nwhp.org/whm/ tsukamoto_bio.php Tateishi, John. And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention. University of Washington Press, 1999