Description
Meet 50 trailblazers who made the United States what it is today in this gorgeously illustrated biography book. With one trailblazer from every state, you'll discover how Rosa Parks from Alabama fought for civil rights, how Barack Obama from Hawaii proved an African-American could be President, how Joe Biden from Delaware protected women from domestic violence, and how Betty Ford from Michigan improved treatment for drug addiction.
Each spread features a timeline of the trailblazer's life, key facts about their achievements, and how their trailblazing continues today. By honoring people who strove in the areas of equal rights, feminism, and environmentalism/conservation, this fact-packed book celebrates what makes America great, then and now.
Alabama Rosa Parks; Alaska Margaret Murie; Arizona Cesar Chavez; Arkansas All-American Redheads (women's basketball team); California Colin Kaepernick; Colorado Corky Gonzales; Connecticut Rebecca Lobo; Delaware Joe Biden; Florida Emma Gonzalez; Georgia Jackie Robinson; Hawaii Barack Obama; Idaho Marilyn Schuler; Illinois Betty Friedan; Indiana Eugene V. Debs; Iowa Carrie Chapman Catt; Kansas William Allen White; Kentucky Muhammad Ali; Louisiana Norris Henderson; Maine Dorothea Dix; Maryland Thurgood Marshall; Massachusetts W.E.B. DuBois; Michigan Betty Ford; Minnesota Maya Moore; Mississippi Myrlie Evers-Williams; Missouri Michael Harrington; Montana Barbara Ehrenreich; Nebraska Susette La Flesche; Nevada Velma Bronn Johnson; New Hampshire Doris Haddock; New Jersey Paul Robeson; New Mexico Notah Begay; New York Margaret Sanger; North Carolina Jessica McDonald; North Dakota Dave Archambault; Ohio LeBron James; Oklahoma Woody Guthrie; Oregon Lola Baldwin; Pennsylvania Rachel Carson; Rhode Island Marjorie van Vliet; South Carolina Sarah and Angelina Grimke; South Dakota Hubert Humphrey; Tennessee Hattie Caraway; Texas Lyndon Johnson; Utah David Nelson; Vermont Clarina I.H. Nichols; Virginia Mildred Loving; Washington Jenny Durkan; West Virginia Debbie Null; Wisconsin Robert LaFollette; Wyoming Harriet Elizabeth Byrd
Also available from the 50 States series: The 50 States, 50 Cities of the U.S.A., The 50 States: Activity Book, The 50 States: Fun Facts, and I Spy the 50 States.
Each spread features a timeline of the trailblazer's life, key facts about their achievements, and how their trailblazing continues today. By honoring people who strove in the areas of equal rights, feminism, and environmentalism/conservation, this fact-packed book celebrates what makes America great, then and now.
Alabama Rosa Parks; Alaska Margaret Murie; Arizona Cesar Chavez; Arkansas All-American Redheads (women's basketball team); California Colin Kaepernick; Colorado Corky Gonzales; Connecticut Rebecca Lobo; Delaware Joe Biden; Florida Emma Gonzalez; Georgia Jackie Robinson; Hawaii Barack Obama; Idaho Marilyn Schuler; Illinois Betty Friedan; Indiana Eugene V. Debs; Iowa Carrie Chapman Catt; Kansas William Allen White; Kentucky Muhammad Ali; Louisiana Norris Henderson; Maine Dorothea Dix; Maryland Thurgood Marshall; Massachusetts W.E.B. DuBois; Michigan Betty Ford; Minnesota Maya Moore; Mississippi Myrlie Evers-Williams; Missouri Michael Harrington; Montana Barbara Ehrenreich; Nebraska Susette La Flesche; Nevada Velma Bronn Johnson; New Hampshire Doris Haddock; New Jersey Paul Robeson; New Mexico Notah Begay; New York Margaret Sanger; North Carolina Jessica McDonald; North Dakota Dave Archambault; Ohio LeBron James; Oklahoma Woody Guthrie; Oregon Lola Baldwin; Pennsylvania Rachel Carson; Rhode Island Marjorie van Vliet; South Carolina Sarah and Angelina Grimke; South Dakota Hubert Humphrey; Tennessee Hattie Caraway; Texas Lyndon Johnson; Utah David Nelson; Vermont Clarina I.H. Nichols; Virginia Mildred Loving; Washington Jenny Durkan; West Virginia Debbie Null; Wisconsin Robert LaFollette; Wyoming Harriet Elizabeth Byrd
Also available from the 50 States series: The 50 States, 50 Cities of the U.S.A., The 50 States: Activity Book, The 50 States: Fun Facts, and I Spy the 50 States.