50 American heroes every kid should meet

Jane Addams

Susan B. Anthony

Clara Barton

Mary McLeod Bethune

Elizabeth Blackwell

Rachel Carson

Jimmy Carter

George Washington Carver

Mary Cassatt

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta

Roberto Clemente

Bill Cosby

Walt Disney

Frederick Douglass

Thomas Alva Edison

Albert Einstein

Benjamin Franklin

John Glenn

Martha Graham

Matthew Henson

Milton Hershey

Langston Hughes

Thomas Jefferson

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Robert E. Lee

Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea

Abraham Lincoln

Yo-Yo Ma

George C. Marshall

John Muir

Sandra Day O'Connor

Rosa Parks

I. M. Pei

Christopher Reeve

Cal Ripken Jr.

Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Jonas Salk

Tecumseh

Harry S. Truman

Harriet Tubman

George Washington

Ida B. Wells

Elie Wiesel

Wilbur and Orville Wright.