List of Heroes Profiled:

Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
Clara Barton
Mary McLeod Bethune
Elizabeth Blackwell
Rachel Carson
Jimmy Carter
George Washington Carver
Mary Cassatt
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
Roberto Clemente
Bill Cosby
Walt Disney
Frederick Douglass
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin
John Glenn
Martha Graham
Matthew Henson
Milton Hershey
Langston Hughes
Thomas Jefferson
Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Yo Yo Ma
George Marshall
John Muir
Sandra Day O'Connor
Rosa Parks
I.M. Pei
Christopher Reeve
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Jonas Salk
Tecumseh
Harry Truman
Harriet Tubman
George Washington
Elie Weisel
Ida B. Wells
Wilbur and Orville Wright

from "50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet"
by Dennis Denenberg and Lorraine Roscoe
The Millbrook Press, ©2001