People in History

I was a nurse during World War I.

My invention helped people and goods travel faster across water.

I'm known as the "peanut doctor".

I was the first African- American to earn a doctorates degree from Harvard.

I was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. I disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.

I studied agriculture and taught farmers about crop rotation.

I am remembered as the inventor of the first successful steamboat in the United States.

I was an African American who wrote books about life among African Americans.

I was born a slave in Missouri.

Helped form the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).