Harriet Tubman - African American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy

Harriet Tubman was an famous African American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she completed thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses recognized as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post war period struggle for women's suffrage. In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then directly returned to Maryland to rescue her family.

Large rewards were accessible for the return of many of the fugitive slaves, but no one then recognized that Tubman was the one helping them. When the American Civil War began, Tubman occupation for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to guide an armed expedition in the war, she guided the Combahee River Raid, which liberated more than 700 slaves in South Carolina. She became active in the women's suffrage movement in New York until illness overtook her. Near the ending of her life, she lived in a home for old African Americans which she had helped found years earlier.

Birth Name	Araminta Ross
Date Of Birth	1820 or 1821
Place Of Birth	Dorchester County, Maryland
Nationality	American
Other names	Minty, Moses
Occupation	Slave, Civil War Nurse, Suffragist, Civil Rights activist
Spouse	John Tubman, Nelson Davies
Cause of death	Pneumonia
Date Of Died	March 10, 1913
Place Of Died	Auburn, New York, US

Billy Graham - American evangelical Christian reverend/evangelist

Billy Graham is an American evangelical Christian reverend/evangelist. As of April 25, 2010, when he met with Barack Obama, Graham has spent personal time with twelve United States presidents going back to Harry S. Truman, and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century. He is a Southern Baptist. He rose to celebrity status as his sermons were broadcast on radio and television. It is said that Graham has preached in person to more people around the world than any other preacher in history.

According to his staff, as of 1993 more than 2.5 million people have "stepped forward at his crusades to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior", many to the altar call song "Just As I Am". As of 2008, Graham's lifetime audience, including radio and television broadcasts, topped 2.2 billion. In 1971, Graham received an award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He has received the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Reagan, America's highest civilian honors.

Birth Name	William Franklin Graham Jr.
Date Of Birth	November 7, 1918
Place Of Birth	Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Evangelist
Religion	Evangelical Christian
Denomination	Southern Baptist
Spouse	Ruth Graham

Elvis Presley - singers, actor

Elvis Aaron Presleya was one of the most famous American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely recognized by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", out in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the foremost figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearance and chart topping records. His energized interpretation of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited presentation style made him enormously popular and controversial. In November 1956, he completed his film debut in Love Me Tender.

Conscripted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his soundtrack career two years later with some of his most commercially winning work. He staged few concerts, however, and, guided by Parker, proceed to devote much of the 1960s to creation Hollywood movies and soundtrack albums, most of them seriously derided. He had a versatile voice and uncommonly wide success encompassing many genres, including country, pop ballads, gospel, and blues. He is the best-selling solo performer in the history of popular music. Nominated for 14 competitive Grammys, he won three, and got the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36. He has been induct into 4 music halls of fame.

Birth name	Elvis Aaron Presley
Date Of Birth	January 8, 1935
Place Of Birth	Tupelo, Mississippi,United States
Genres	Rock and roll, pop, rockabilly, country, blues, gospel, R&B
Occupations	Musician, actor
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano
Date Of Death	August 16, 1977
Place Of Death	Memphis, Tennessee,United States

Mount Rushmore - ameriacn presidents sculpture

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture engraved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Gutzon Borglum and later on by his son Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot sculpture of the heads of former United States presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The whole memorial covers 1,278.45 acres and is 5,725 feet above sea level. Borglum decisive the sculpture should have a further national focus, and chose the four presidents whose likenesses would be carved into the mountain.

After securing federal funding, building on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were finished between 1934 and 1939. Upon Gutzon Borglum's death in March 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum took more construction. Though the primary concept called for each president to be depicted from head to waist, lack of funding enforced construction to end in October 1941. The U.S. National Park Service took control of the memorial in 1933, while it was still in construction, and control the memorial to the present day. It attracts around two million people annually.

Location	Pennington County, South Dakota, U.S.
Nearest city	Keystone, South Dakota
Area	1,278.45 acres
Established	March 3, 1925
Visitors	14,757,971