Contemporary Heroes and Heroines II

by Browne, Ray Broadus; Straub, Deborah Gillan; Browne, Glenn J.; Browne, Kevin O.

• ISBN13: 9780810383364
• ISBN10: 0810383365
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-07-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

Brief profiles of more than 100 contemporary men and women from all walks of life whose activities reflect heroic traits.

Table of Contents

Heroes and Heroines listed by area of endeavor	xi
Individuals profiled in Contemporary Heroes and Heroines	xv
Preface	xvii
Introduction	xxi
Jim Abbott
Major league baseball player	1	(5)
Ansel Adams
Photographer; conservationist	6	(6)
Jane Addams
Social worker; founder of Hull House; author	12	(6)
Roald Amundsen
Explorer; discoverer of South Pole	18	(6)
Marian Anderson
Opera singer; human rights activist	24	(6)
Louis Armstrong
Musician; singer; bandleader	30	(6)
Arthur Ashe
Professional tennis player; author	36	(6)
Joan Baez
Singer; human rights activist; author	42	(5)
Robert D. Ballard
Scientist; author; explorer; discovered wreck of the Titanic	47	(6)
Christiaan Barnard
Surgeon; performed first human heart transplant; author	53	(6)
Clara Barton
Founder of the American Red Cross	59	(5)
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor; composer; educator	64	(6)
Mary McLeod Bethune
Educator; founder of Bethune-Cookman College	70	(6)
Stephen Biko
South African anti-apartheid activist	76	(6)
Jim and Sarah Brady
Gun-control activists	82	(7)
Christy Brown
Author	89	(5)
Pearl Buck
Author; peace activist; advocate for the mentally retarded and mixed-race children	94	(6)
Chris Burke
Actor; first person with Down syndrome to star in a television series	100	(5)
Ben Carson
Surgeon; performed first successful separation of congenitally united (Siamese) twins joined at the back of the head; author	105	(6)
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Former President of the United States and First Lady; social and human rights activists; authors	111	(10)
George Washington Carver
Scientist; educator; inventor	121	(6)
Mary Cassatt
Artist	127	(6)
Chai Ling
Leader of Chinese pro-democracy movement	133	(5)
Winston Churchill
British politician; Prime Minister during World War II	138	(9)
Jacques Cousteau
Explorer; conservationist; author	147	(6)
Marie Curie
Scientist; discoverer of radium and polonium	153	(6)
Dalai Lama
Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists and former ruler of Tibet; human rights activist	159	(6)
Clarence Darrow
Attorney; champion of labor and the oppressed	165	(6)
Tom Dooley
Physician; founder of medical clinics in Southeast Asia	171	(6)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Educator; civil rights activist; author	177	(6)
Albert Einstein
Scientist; developed general theory of relativity; pacifist; Zionist; human rights activist	183	(6)
Duke Ellington
Musician; composer; bandleader	189	(6)
Anthony S. Fauci
Physician; director of AIDS research for the United States government	195	(5)
Jose Feliciano
Singer; musician; composer	200	(5)
Alexander Fleming
Physician; discoverer of penicillin	205	(6)
Lou Gehrig
Major league baseball player; holds record for most consecutive number of games played	211	(6)
Elizabeth Glaser
AIDS activist; founder of Pediatric AIDS Foundation	217	(6)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Former leader of the Soviet Union	223	(8)
Alex Haley
Author	231	(6)
Barbara Harris
Episcopal bishop; social activist	237	(6)
Vaclav Havel
Author; former dissident; President of Czechoslovakia	243	(6)
Stephen W. Hawking
Scientist; educator; author	249	(6)
Jim Henson
Entertainer; creator of the Muppets	255	(6)
Matthew Henson
Explorer; co-discoverer of the North Pole	261	(6)
Thor Heyerdahl
Anthropologist; explorer; author	267	(6)
Langston Hughes
Author	273	(6)
Daniel Inouye
United States Senator	279	(6)
Pope John XXIII
Former leader of the Roman Catholic Church	285	(6)
Mother Jones
Union activist	291	(6)
Michael Jordan
Professional basketball player	297	(6)
Robert F. Kennedy
Former United States Senator and candidate for 1968 Democratic presidential nomination	303	(6)
Ron Kovic
Antiwar activist; author	309	(5)
Maggie Kuhn
Social activist; founder of the Gray Panthers; author	314	(6)
Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey
Anthropologists	320	(10)
Greg LeMond
Professional cyclist; three-time winner of the Tour de France	330	(6)
Maya Lin
Architect; designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Civil Rights Memorial	336	(6)
Anne Sullivan Macy
Educator; Helen Keller's teacher and constant companion for nearly fifty years	342	(6)
Malcolm X
Muslim leader; Black-American nationalist; civil rights activist	348	(7)
Wilma Mankiller
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation	355	(5)
Thurgood Marshall
Former Justice of the United States Supreme Court; civil rights activist	360	(6)
Marlee Matlin
Academy Award-winning actress; activist on behalf of the hearing impaired	366	(5)
Chico Mendes
Conservationist; union activist	371	(6)
Karl Menninger
Psychiatrist; co-founder of the Menninger Clinic; social activist; author	377	(6)
Toni Morrison
Author	383	(6)
Grandma Moses
Artist	389	(5)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Scientist; head of atomic bomb project during World War II; educator; anti-nuclear activist; author	394	(6)
Jesse Owens
Track athlete; Olympic medalist	400	(6)
Gordon Parks
Photographer; filmmaker; author	406	(6)
Robert E. Peary
Explorer; co-discoverer of the North Pole	412	(6)
Colin Powell
General of the United States Army; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff	418	(7)
Paul Robeson
Singer; actor; human rights activist	425	(6)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Former President of the United States	431	(9)
Wilma Rudolph
Track athlete; Olympic medalist	440	(6)
Margaret Sanger
Birth control advocate; founder of Planned Parenthood	446	(6)
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Former General of the United States Army; leader of the coalition forces in Persian Gulf War	452	(7)
Albert Schweitzer
Physician; theologian; organist; founder of mission hospital in Africa	459	(6)
Pete Seeger
Singer; musician; social activist; conservationist	465	(6)
Aung San Suu Kyi
Leader of Myanmarese (Burmese) pro-democracy movement	471	(6)
Corrie ten Boom
Evangelist; author; helped Dutch Jews escape the Nazis during World War II	477	(5)
Jim Thorpe
Professional football and baseball player; Olympic medalist in track	482	(6)
Harry S. Truman
Former President of the United States	488	(9)
Terry Waite
Former Anglican Church envoy and hostage negotiator; held prisoner in Lebanon for nearly five years	497	(6)
Raoul Wallenberg
Former Swedish Diplomat; credited with saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II	503	(6)
Booker T. Washington
Educator; founder of Tuskegee Institute; spokesman for conservative Black Americans	509	(6)
Ryan White
AIDS activist	515	(5)
Simon Wiesenthal
Holocaust survivor; has devoted his life to tracking down Nazi war criminals	520	(6)
William Griffith Wilson
Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous	526	(6)
Oprah Winfrey
Television talk show hostess; actress; producer; social activist	532	(6)
Stevie Wonder
Singer; musician; composer; social activist	538	(6)
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Professional golfer; athlete; Olympic medalist in track	544	(7)
Photo Credits	551	(2)
General Index	553