People Who Make a Difference

This man was an astronaut who flew to the moon twice, but never landed on it.

• Henry Ford

• Todd Beamer

• James Lovell

• Hector Garcia

He was on a flight that terrorist took over on 9/11 and helped take the plane down that crashed in an open field.

• Todd Beamer

• James Lovell

• Hector Garcia

• Matin Luther King

This person became blind and deaf from a virus. She was the first deaf and blind person to graduate college.

• Ellen Ochoa

• Helen Keller

• Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Anne Sullivan

He believed that all people, no matter the color of their skin, should be treated the same.

• Henry Ford

• Todd Beamer

• James Lovell

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

These men were in the U.S. Army and gave their lives to save others while on a ship during World War 2.

• 4 Generals

• 4 Chaplains

• 4 Captains

• 4 Admirals

She was the first female Hispanic-American astronaut to travel in space. She finished 3 NASA space shuttle missions and spent over 900 hours in space

• Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Anne Sullivan

• Helen Keller

• Ellen Ochoa

He developed the assembly line and introduced The Model T car, as well as inventing many other things.

• Hector Garcia

• Henry Ford

• James Lovell

• Martin Luther King Jr.

He was a Mexican-American doctor, civil rights advocate and veteran who spent his life fighting for equal rights for other Mexican-Americans.

• Henry Ford

• James Lovell

• Hector Garcia

• Todd Beamer

She was an author who wrote many books about her life called The Little House on the Prairie Series, which were about a young pioneer girl on the western frontier.

• Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Ellen Ochoa

• Anne Sullivan

• Rosa Parks

She was an African American woman that was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.

• Ruby Bridges

• Anne Sullivan

• Ellen Ochoa

• Rosa Parks