Important Historical Figures

He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves, during the Civil War.

Wrote the famous "Letters From a Burmingham Jail" and led the Million Man March.

He helped create the Treaty of Paris with Benjamin Franklin, ending the American Revolution.

She was the first woman to speak in front of a national convention and discuss social reform.

He was the U.S. President who came up with the New Deal after the Great Depression.

The U.S. President who was the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize (1906).

French King executed by the people during the French Revolution.

The most famous scientist who came up with the Theory of Relativity.

This man served 27 years in a government prison, then helped usher in the end of Apartheid.

He was a two-term president and many of the Interstate Highways were built on his orders.