Any ideas for a biography day project?

Question

My class is having a biography day next month, but I need a person by tomorrow. I need some ideas for a famous women in history. They have had to give back to the community.

Answer 1

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (India): She and her sisters sacrificed their lives for the indigents dying on the streets of Calcutta.

Jane Adams: She came from a moderately wealthy family in Chicago and she used whatever resources she had to improve the lives of those living in the slums.

Golda Meir: She was raised in the Midwest and she and her husband migrated to Israel and they worked tirelessly to build a nation. She later became Prime Minister.

Eleanor Roosevelt: Married to FDR, the 32nd President of the US. Mother of 6 and after her husband was stricken with polio, she became "his feet". She was fearless in her pursuit of social justice; for Labor, Blacks and women.

Fannie Lou Hamer: A Black woman from Mississippi who devoted her life to human rights for people of color in Mississippi. She was a Voice to be reckoned with at the 1968 Democratic Convention. She based her actions on the belief that the Gospel of Christ is revolutionary and so was Jesus.

Answer 2

out of your list--Twain, because writers are exciting and non-cliched(and Poe has a gloomy life) yet in case you opt to be more suitable ingenious John Brown John Paul Jones Carrie A. united states of america Ethan Allen Benedict Arnold Andrew Carnegie John C. Calhoun Fulton Stephen Douglas

Answer 3

Amelia Earhart - First woman to be on a transatlantic flight

Harriet Tubman - Helped slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad

Eleanor Roosevelt - humanitarian and civic leader...worked for the welfare of youth, black Americans, the poor, and women, at home and abroad.

There's many more here: http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm

Answer 4

What about Clara Barton for founding the Red Cross?

Here's a link...
http://www.fairfax-station.org/about/about_clara_barton.html