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2) Will Rogers
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Will Rogers was one of the best-loved Americans of his day. Whether he was standing on a New York City stage doing rope tricks or writing books and newspaper articles, he always made people laugh. But no matter how popular he became, Will Rogers was never far from his roots. As a boy in Oklahoma, young Willie Rogers wanted to be a cowboy more than anything else. When he grew up, he discovered that being a cowboy was harder than he thought. But he...
5) John Brown
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A brief biography of the man who fought against slavery in the Kansas Territory and who led a revolt at Harper's Ferry in 1859.
10) Wilma Rudolph
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A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
11) Jesse Owens
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Describes the life of track-and-field athlete Jesse Owens, from his childhood in Alabama and his family's move to Cleveland to his athletic career which culminated in his winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
12) Johnny Appleseed
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John Chapman loved all forms of nature, and he worked throughout his lifetime to improve it by planting apple trees. Known as the folk hero Johnny Appleseed, John helped to build America--not with a hammer and nails, but with a bag of seeds and a handful of dirt.
13) Mother Teresa
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Describes the early life of Mother Teresa, and how what she learned about helping others led her to become a nun, to found the Missionaries of Charity, and to become famous for her work.
14) Helen Keller
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Hellen Keller could do almost anything, she was a brilliant thinker, she understood several languages, she wrote books and gave speeches all over the world. There were only two things that Helen could not do, she couldn't hear and she couldn't see.She never let that stop her, she did what she set out to do just the same.
16) Pocahontas
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An introduction to the life of Pocahontas, a Powhatan Indian, which covers her birth, meetings with English settlers, trip to England, family life, and death.
20) Cesar Chavez
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During the Great Depression, many people had to work long hours and were barely paid enough to survive. Cesar Chavez felt this treatment was unfair and worked to secure more rights. He formed a Union and led strikes and marches that forced landowners to increase wages and improve working conditions. This account shows how Chavez inspired others, proving that it was not necessary to resort to violence to produce change.
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