LEADERSHIP AND LEGACY IN HISTORY

   LEADERSHIP AND LEGACY  IN HISTORY

Minnesota History

Environment

Norman Borlaug (1960s)

Willard Munger

Count William Rudolph Martinovich von Rovigno

Merritt Brothers - Ore Mining (1880s)

Medicine

William J. Mayo

Dr. Lillehei and Open Heart Surgery (1952)

Earl Bakken

Bone Marrow Transplants (1968)

Charles Fremont Dight and the

Minnesota Eugenics Society (1923)

Sister Elizabeth Kenny and Physical Therapy (1942)

State of Minnesota v. Philip Morris (1994)

             

Science

Civil Rights

Roy Wilkins

John Ireland

Matthew Little

Hubert H. Humphrey (1940s/50s)

Jane Grey Swisshelm (1860s)

Education

Harriet Bishop (1850s)

Gratia Alta Countryman

Ruth A. Myers

Julia Bullard Nelson

Religion

Art/Literature

Charles Joseph Biederman

Leroy Sunderland Buffington

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Other

Oliver Kelley starts the Grange (1867)

Farmer-Labor Movement of Minnesota

Frances Densmore

J.A.A. Burnquist and the Commission

of Public Safety (1917)

James “Crash” Ryan and Seatbelts (1950s)

George D. Munsing

James J. Hill and the Great Northern Railway

C.C. Washburn and “New Process Flour”

Betty Crocker and General Mills (1930s)

U.S. History

Environment

John Muir and the Fight for the Protection

of the Environment (1890s)

Rachel Carson

Medicine

Oliver Wendell-Holmes, Sr. and Anesthesia (1846)

Birth of the Food and Drug Administration (1906)

Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith: Alcoholics Anonymous (1935)

Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine (1955)

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Science

Rosalind Franklin

Edison and the Light Bulb (1880s)

Cyrus McCormick and the Reaper

Charles Goodyear and Vulcanized Rubber

Samuel Morse and Telegraph (1838)

The Lucas Geyser: Oil Discovery in America

Wright Brothers and their Flying Machine

Ford’s Model T and the Assembly Line (1908)

William Merriam Burton/Burton Process (1913)

Watson and Crick: Discovering the

Structure of DNA (1950s)

Civil Rights

A. Philip Randolph

Plessy vs. Ferguson court case (1892)

Ida Wells and anti-lynching (1892)

Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois

Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott

Freedom Riders (1961)

Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs - pioneer of the

modern Gay Rights Movement (1860s)

National Women’s Rights Convention

Elizabeth Blackwell and Female

Education Reform

Margaret Sanger and Birth Control

National Organization of Women (NOW)

Title IX (1972)

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Integration in

Civil Rights (1950s)

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Leadership in the Women’s Rights Movement (1850s)

Mary Church Terrell and her Advocacy for Women and African-American Rights (1890s)

Critiquing the American Childhood;

Paul Goodman (1940s)

Fight for Equal Rights Amendment (1960s)

Mother Jones and Labor Rights (1900s)

Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt (1831)

John Lewis

Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916)

Education

Horace Mann and Reforms in

 American Education (1820s)

Religion

Mary Baker Eddy

Joseph Smith Jr.

Art

Frank Lloyd Wright (1880s)

Literature

John Peter Zenger and Freedom of the Press

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Ernest Hemingway

Upton Sinclair and The Jungle

Louisa May Alcott

Other

Dorothea Dix and Activism for the

Indigent Insane (1850s)

Andy Rooney

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

and the Defense of Liberty (1920s)

Development of the NCAA (

World History

Environment

Wangari Maathai

Chico Mendes

Medicine

Marie Curie and Radiation

Hans Asperger

Ignaz Semmelweis and the

Importance of Handwashing

Joseph Lister and Antiseptics

Science and Technology

Copernicus and the Heliocentric Model (1500s)

Sigmund Freud and the

Psychoanalysis Movement

Nikola Tesla

Galileo and Heliocentrism

Isaac Newton and Gravity

Bessemer Process

Darwin and Evolution

The Sewing Machine

Alexander Graham Bell and Telephone

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web

Civil Rights

Christine de Pizan; The Book of the

City of the Ladies

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the

revolt against Patriarch Spain

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of

the Rights of Woman

Bela Kun and the Communist Uprising

in Hungary (1919)

Emmeline Pankhurst and the Fight for

British Women’s Suffrage (1870s)

White Rose (anti-Hitler resistance group)

Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization of the USSR

Gorbachev’s Reforms

Emilio Aguinaldo and the Fight for

Filipino Rights

Andrei Sakharov and the Fight for

Human Rights in the Soviet Union

Karl Marx and the Revolt against Capitalism

Salvador Allende’s Reforms in Socialist Chile

Hidalgo and the Mexican Revolt against Spain

Jose de San Martin and the Liberation of Chile

Lech Walesa

Louis Riel and Red River Rebellion

Education

Religion

Martin Luther’s 95 Theses

Henry VIII’s Break with Rome

Daniel O’Connell and Catholic

Emancipation in Ireland

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Art

Monet; Founding Modernism

Pablo Picasso - Founder of Cubism

Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism

Walter Gropius and the Birth of

Bauhaus - International Style

Francesco Borromini and Gian Lorenzo Bernini

            - Leaders of Roman Baroque

Architecture (1630s)

Igor Stravinsky - Revolutionary of Ballet

Asai Chu

           

Other

British East India Company and

Leadership in Trade

John Locke and the Right to Revolution

Adam Smith and Fight for Free Trade