Lesson 3: Power to the People
Handout 4

Philanthropic Leader Web Sites

 

  1. Madame C. J. Walker: http://www.madamecjwalker.com
    Continue down the page to "A Brief Biography of Madam C. J. Walker"

     

  2. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html

     

  3. Jane Addams: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/ja_bio.html

     

  4. Clara Barton: http://www.civilwarhome.com/bartonbio.htm

     

  5. Dorothea L. Dix: http://www.civilwarhome.com/dixbio.htm

     

  6. Susan B. Anthony: No longer available.

     

  7. Rosa Parks: http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html

     

  8. W.E.B. Du Bois: http://members.tripod.com/~DuBois/mont.html

     

  9. Booker T. Washington: http://docsouth.unc.edu/washington/bio.html

     

  10. Melinda and Bill Gates: http://www.gatesfoundation.org

     

  11. Ida Wells Barnett: http://www.inform.umd.edu/pictures/womensstudies/PictureGallery/wells.html

     

  12. Harriet Tubman: http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Tubman.html

     

  13. Sojourner Truth: http://library.thinkquest.org/2667/Truth.htm

     

  14. Jesse Jackson: http://www.africana.com/research/encarta/tt_223.asp [no longer available]

     

  15. Cesar E. Chavez: http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Ececipp/cesar_chavez/chavezhome.htm
    Click on "Biography."

     

  16. Stokely Carmichael: http://www.cnn.com/us/9811/15/carmichael.obit/

     

  17. James Farmer: http://www.core-online.org (Congress of Racial Equality)
    Click on "History of CORE," then "James Farmer."

     

  18. Dr. George Edmund Haynes: http://www.laul.org/georgeehaynes.htm

     

For all of the following famous woman and/or minority philanthropists, click on to the same web site which is www.greatwomen.org. Click on "Women of the Hall," then click on the first letter of the woman's last name.
  1. Rachel Carson
  2. Carrie Chapman Catt
  3. Ruth Colvin
  4. Crystal Eastman
  5. Marian Edelman
  6. Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld
  7. Dorothy Height
  8. Dolores Huerta
  9. Helen LaKelly Hunt
  10. "Mother" Mary Harris Jones
  11. Helen Keller
  12. Maggie Kuhn
  13. Susette LaFlesche
  14. Juliette Low
  15. Lucretia Mott
  16. Esther Peterson
  17. Sister Elaine Roulet
  18. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
  19. Eleanor Roosevelt
  20. Margaret Sanger
  21. Katherine Siva Saubel
  22. Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver
  23. Hannah Greenbaum Solomon
  24. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  25. Gloria Steinem
  26. Lucy Stone
  27. Ida Tarbell
  28. Florence Wald
  29. Lillian Wald
  30. Annie Dodge Wauneka