Changemakers

This changemaker refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. She was a civil rights activist.

• Booker T. Washington

• Rosa Parks

• Helen Keller

This changemaker was the first female pilot to fly all by herself across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Amelia Earhart

• Mary Jackson

• Cesar Chavez

This changemaker was an inventor and business man who co-founded Apple and purchased the graphics company Pixar.

• Neil Armstrong

• Steve Jobs

• Orville Wright

This changemaker was a teacher who as a young boy asked for a book as a gift. He taught African-Americans different trades.

• Steve Jobs

• Jackie Robinson

• Booker T. Washington

These changemakers flew the first airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

• Sam and Orville Jones

• Orville and Wilber Wright

• Joe and Charles Smith

This changemaker was an engineer who worked for NASA. She was called a "human computer."

• Rosa Parks

• Mary Jackson

• Helen Keller

This changemaker was deaf and blind. With help from a teacher named Anne Sullivan, she became a speaker and author.

• Amelia Earhart

• Jackie Robinson

• Helen Keller

This changemaker was the first African-American to play major league baseball. He also served in the Army.

• Neil Armstrong

• Jackie Robinson

• Wilber Wright

This changemaker was a pilot and then an astronaut for NASA. He was the first person to walk on the moon.

• Booker T. Washington

• Cesar Chavez

• Neil Armstrong

This changemaker was a civil rights activist who formed a union called the National Farm Workers Association whose purpose was to get better working conditions for farm workers.

• Cesar Chavez

• Steve Jobs

• Thomas Jefferson