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booker t washington was an american educator creator and political leader he spoke on behalf of the large majority of blacks who lived in the South but had lost their right to vote.

alexander graham bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study

thomas edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world. he invented he light bulb w.e.b. du bois was an intellectual leader in the United States W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism—scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity." sameul gompers was a english american cigar maker who became a labor union he founded the american fedration union, and served as that organization's president from 1886 to 1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924

edwin drake was a american oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States. Edwin Drake was hired by the Seneca Oil Company to investigate suspected oil deposits in Titusville, Pennsylvania. George Pullman was an american inventor and industrialist. was identified with various public enterprises, among them the Metropolitan elevated railway system of New York, which was constructed and opened to the public by a corporation of which he was president.

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

Eugene V. Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World, and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.[ [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/John_D._Rockefeller_1885.jpg/220px-John_D._Rockefeller_1885.jpg width="220" height="318" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_D._Rockefeller_1885.jpg"]] John D. Rockefeller American oil magnate and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.