VA/US History SOL People

An educator who urged African Americans to better themselves through vocational education

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Ida B. Wells

• Booker T. Washington

Communist leader of USSR from 1957-1964

• Khrushchev

• Gorbachev

• Brezhnev

Radical Republican leader of Congress during Reconstruction

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Ulysses S. Grant

Former slave who became a leading abolitionist

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Sarah Grimke

Commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War

• Marquis de Lafeyette

• General Rochambeau

• George Washington

American Black Muslim leader from 1952-1964

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Louis Farrakhan

Enlightenment thinker who believed all people possessed natural rights

• Rousseau

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

Invented a quicker, cheaper process for making steel

• Henry Bessemer

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

Civil Rights leader during the 1960s, was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Mason

• Patrick Henry