Everyone knows George Washington, Martin Luther King & Abraham Lincoln, but who are the unsung heroes of this great country
5. Tim Berners-Lee (Scientist)
Notable Works: World Wide Web & Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Overview
Sorry guys, Al Gore didn't invent the internet. Although he was born in the United Kingdom, Tim has been an American citizen since he joined MIT in 1994.
Tim is the reason you are able to read this blog right now as we speak. Berners-Lee invented Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which is used as the communication signals over a internet. This communication travels over cable, fiber, copper lines & satellites all around the US connecting you the entire world.
Berners-Lee began working for a CERN, a government entity in Europe in the 1980's where he and several colleagues began working on projects which would eventually become the World Wide Web. See before this, computers where like if you turned off your data & WFi & tried to have fun... wasn't that great. Once Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in the late 1980's, it pioneered the way for you to get on your neighbors Xfinity WiFi Hot Spot with your grandma's cable login information because you're too cheap to pay for WiFi & internet. Tim's invention has turned out great so far, but the effects of the internet are still young, so time will tell how his invention that changed the world pans out.
4. Clara Barton (Entrepreneur, Women's Rights Activist)
Notable Works: Founder of the Red Cross, Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist
Overview
Born in the early 1820's, Barton became a momental piece in many major events in American history. To begin, let us first start with her involvement in the Civil War. During the Civil War, Barton acted as a nurse traveling with the armies during the bloodiest war in American history. One of her key efforts were her actions with saving & properly burying the Union soldiers of the Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Now the Andersonville prison is a whole other blog, but if you want to see the sick actions of the Confederacy; just check out the images just click this link.
This led to her second effort in creating the Red Cross which would participate across the world saving lives during some of the bloodiest wars in world history. Her third effort was working with Frederick Douglass to help the civil rights movement after the Civil War. Her last effort was her involvement with the Women's Suffrage & Rights movement with Susan B. Anthony. Barton was around the same age as Anthony, and helped motivate & organize many of the movements in the late 1800's that lead to the 19th amendment in 1920 that secured women's voting rights. I'm a firm believer that women haven't had their fair chance in "his" tory, so it is needed to know the women who fought through that adversity.
3. Medgar Evers (Civil Rights Activist & WW2 Veteran)
Notable Works: WW2 Battle of Normandy Veteran & Civil Rights Activist
Overview
I swear, no one n a 5 miles radius outside of a Rent a Center or Fast Cash store even knows who this guy is. Which is pretty sad, because without him, the world would be a very different place today. Medgar was a World War 2 hero who fought in the Battle of Normandy against Nazi Germany. Just like all black veterans during this time, Medgar fought the evils across the Atlantic, to face the evils in his own country. Medgar became very politically vocal against the strong segregation laws in his home state of Mississippi which had protected lynching, denied blacks voting rights, economically oppressed blacks & racially segregated society.
In 1954 Evans became the President of the NAACP's Mississippi chapter. During his leadership he helped organize the opportunity to bring Brown v. Board of Education to the Supreme Court to desegregate schools. He helped lead a investigation into the murder of Emmitt Till in Mississippi.
Through all his work, he became a start of the KKK and in 1963 he was shot by KKK white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Medgar did not die in vain, as his death helped fuel the Civil Rights movement even further to helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 just one year after his death. He was a mentor & inspiration to many other leaders like Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X & James Baldwin.
2. Earl Warren (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)
Notable Works: Brown v. Board of Education, Gideon v. Wainwright, Reynolds v. Smith & Miranda v. Arizona.
Overview
Supreme Court judges get a bad rep in our history books despite all the impact they have. I'm sure the only Supreme Court justice anyone today can today is Brett Kavanaugh, and that guy is only known for assaulting women & drinking Bud Light. Earl Warren started as the Attorney General In California & then Governor of California where he served a whole 3 terms.
He was nominated to the court by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953. Little did he know the s*** storm that he would get swept by in the next few years which was the Civil Rights Movement. Warren played a key role is the decision of Brown v. Board of Education which racially desegregated schools in America. He also helped guy the way to the saying "You have a right to an attorney" in Gideon v. Wainwright where he ruled that a defendant is guaranteed an attorney by the public. He also helped guide the "one person, one vote" ruling in Reynolds v. Smith which made state legislatures make senator's district in equal populations. Warren said f it in 1969 and retired.
1. Henry Wallace
Notable Works: Vice President of the United States
Overview
This guy really should've been a President and was done so dirty. Henry Wallace was basically Bernie Sanders on steroids in the 1930's & 1940's. He was dope as hell and the elitist Democrats fought against him & the people. Henry Wallace served as the Vice President of the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt's first 3 terms, until Roosevelt chose Harry Truman his 4th term by the pressure of the Democrats & died a month later letting Truman become President after Wallace spent 12 years behind him.
But why would they do that? Henry Wallace was a Iowa born farmer that fought for workers rights, civil rights, universal healthcare, anti-colonization & helped guide America in World War 2. That's a lot of stuff to scare evil corrupt politicians to death. Henry Wallace helped guide the New Deal of the 1930's that helped recover the United States after the Great Depression. He also was a huge advocate of civil rights & the global abolishment of colonization & slavery. He was a huge populist until the after WW2, when then President Harry Truman pushed propaganda that he was a communist due to his threat to his Democrat Presidential nomination. The world is a better place because Henry Wallace was our Vice President, and it would be a lot better if he had became our President at one point.