Important People 2

wrote Silent Spring to warn of the dangers of pesticide use

• Marcus Garvey

• Harriet Tubman

• Upton Sinclair

• Rachael Carson

President during Cuban Missile Crisis

• Woodrow Wilson

• George H. Bush

• John F. Kennedy

• Susan B. Anthony

leader of the birth control movement in the 1920s

• Fidel Castro

• Margaret Sanger

• John Steinbeck

• Eugene Debs

consumer advocate who wrote Unsafe At Any Speed

• Samuel Gompers

• Ralph Nader

• John Locke

• Dorothea Dix

abolitionist and escaped slave who worked on Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman

• Thomas Edison

• Marcus Garvey

• Upton Sinclair

leader of the women suffrage movement

• Frederick Douglass

• Fidel Castro

• Henry Ford

• Lucretia Mott

first woman justice on the Supreme Court

• Helen Hunt Jackson

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Sandra Day O'Connor

• Samuel Gompers

wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Upton Sinclair

• Booker T. Washington

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Alexander Graham Bell

leader of Nez Perce, resisted going to reservation

• Rachael Carson

• Uriah Stephens

• Ralph Nader

• Chief Joseph

organized the United Farm Workers in a boycott for better working conditions

• Earl Warren

• Thomas Edison

• Chief Joseph

• Cesar Chavez