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A = Easiest; about 100 words
B = Easy; about 150 words
C = Harder; about 200 words
D = Hardest; about 250 words
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Introduction vii
Folk Heroes 1
1. Johnny Appleseed 1 (CD track 1) (A)
2. Nat Love 3 (CD track 2) (B)
3. Daniel Boone 5 (CD track 3) (C)
4. Annie Oakley 7 (CD track 4) (D)
Civil War and Anti-Slavery Heroes 9
5. Harriet Tubman 9 (CD track 5) (A)
6. Clara Barton 11 (CD track 6) (B)
7. Frederick Douglass 13 (CD track 7) (C)
8. Sojourner Truth 15 (CD track 8) (D)
Native Americans 17
9. Chief Joseph 17 (CD track 9) (A)
10. Sitting Bull 19 (CD track 10) (B)
11. Sequoyah 21 (CD track 11) (C)
12. Annie Dodge Wauneka 23 (CD track 12) (D)
Inventors and Scientists 25
13. Thomas Edison 25 (CD track 13) (A)
14. Dian Fossey 27 (CD track 14) (B)
15. Rachel Carson 29 (CD track 15) (C)
16. George Washington
Carver 31 (CD track 16) (D)
Educators and Reformers 33
17. Father Flanagan 33 (CD track 17) (A)
18. Jane Addams 35 (CD track 18) (B)
19. Booker T. Washington 37 (CD track 19) (C)
20. Nellie Bly 39 (CD track 20) (D)
Adventurers 41
21. Amelia Earhart 41 (CD track 21) (A)
22. Alan Shepard 43 (CD track 22) (B)
23. Matthew Henson 45 (CD track 23) (C)
24. Sacagawea 47 (CD track 24) (D)
Human Rights Leaders 49
25. Martin Luther King, Jr. 49 (CD track 25) (A)
26. Susan B. Anthony 51 (CD track 26) (B)
27. Princess Kaiulani 53 (CD track 27) (C)
28. Sarah Winnemucca 55 (CD track 28) (D)
Business and Labor Leaders 57
29. Andrew Carnegie 57 (CD track 29) (A)
30. Cesar Chavez 59 (CD track 30) (B)
31. Mother Jones 61 (CD track 31) (C)
32. A. Philip Randolph 63 (CD track 32) (D)
Famous Presidents 65
33. George Washington 65 (CD track 33) (A)
34. Abraham Lincoln 67 (CD track 34) (B)
35. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 69 (CD track 35) (C)
36. John F. Kennedy 71 (CD track 36) (D)
Military Leaders and Heroes 73
37. Robert E. Lee 73 (CD track 37) (A)
38. John Paul Jones 75 (CD track 38) (B)
39. Jacqueline Cochran 77 (CD track 39) (C)
40. William Kenzo Nakamura 79 (CD track 40) (D)
Writers 81
41. Mark Twain 81 (CD
track 41) (A)
42. Emily Dickinson o 83 (CD track 42) (B)
43. Zora Neale Hurston 85 (CD track 43) (C)
44. L. Frank Baum 87 (CD track 44) (D)
Entertainers 89
45. Marian Anderson 89 (CD track 45) (A)
46. Katharine Hepburn 91 (CD track 46) (B)
47. Harry Houdini 93 (CD track 47) (C)
48. Alvin Ailey 95 (CD track 48) (D)
Sports Heroes 97
49. Roberto Clemente 97 (CD track 49) (A)
50. Wilma Rudolph 99 (CD track 50) (B)
51. Bruce Lee 101 (CD track 51) (C)
52. Duke Kahanamoku 103 (CD track 52) (D)
Appendices 105
Comparative Timeline 1730-1890 105
Comparative Timeline 1820-1970 106
Comparative Timeline 1850-2000 107
Comparative Timeline 1910-2020 108
List of Presidents and Events 1789-2009 109
LEGENDS
- Graded Readings from American History
52 People Who Made A Difference
by: Michael Ryall
Bio-Sketches for Reading, Telling, Listening, Writing, and Research
Levels: Grade 4 to Adult.
E.S.L. : Beginning to Intermediate
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