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Champions of Resistance
Champions of resistance, brief biographies of famous and not-so-famous people who courageously resisted social injustice. Prepared by students in ELED 3000, Foundations of Education and Classroom Management, Utah State University.
Contact person - Dr. Martha Whitaker - mwhitaker@coe.usu.edu
Project Information:
Effective social resistance is an essential part of our striving for a more democratic society. Children need role models who have championed the cause of groups of people who have had their constitutional rights denied or their voices silenced. Teacher education students wrote biographies about people who were "Champions of Resistance" - individuals who refused to settle for an inequitable social status quo. These brief summaries of their biographies are meant to be a resource for teachers who want to offer their students a wider variety of social change agent role models than is usually included in history textbooks.
Champions of Resistance - Biographies - Authors:
- Adams, Abigail - Christine Cogburn
- Addams, Jane - Kelsey Ashment
- Anthony, Susan B. - Kerri Park
- Angelou, Maya - Susan Nicolaysen
- Baker, Ella - Amber Taylor
- Baker, Ella J. - Mandy Mills
- Barton, Clara - Amy Bassett
- Bates, Daisy - Megan Orme
- Bly, Nellie - Christy Rees
- Bolivar, Simon - Julie Sterling
- Braille, Louis - Melissa Pearson
- Bridges, Ruby - Rhonda Mask
- Brown, John - Trisha Thayne
- Brown, Lee - Tiffany Pace
- Brownson, Orestes - Krislyn Willden
- Buscaglia, Leo - Wendy Rupper
- Carmichael, Stokely - Becca Young
- Catt, Carrie Chapman - Raquelle Lloyd
- Chief Joseph - Jenelle Dunn
- Christopher, Dr. John R. - Aaron J. Preece
- Clerc, Laurent - Soren, Angela
- Collins, Marva N. - Kelli Partk
- Crandall, Prudence - Monica C. Lifferth
- Delaney, Martin - Jodi Campbell
- Dees, Morris - Mica Hepworth
- Dewey, John - Camilla Webb
- Divers, Bridget - Kelly Cordova
- Douglass, Frederick - Sara Minchey
- DuBois, W.E.B. - Emily Dent
- Duniway, Abigail Scott - Heidi Murray
- Durr, Virginia Foster - Nicole DuPaix
- Earhart, Amelia - Jennifer LaCombe
- Evers, Medger - Cammie Lichfield
- Fremont, Jesse Benton - Michelle Butler
- Gandhi, Mahatma - Jensa Metcalf
- Hancock, John - Amber Dryden
- Hearne, Paul G. - Christine Nielson
- Henson, Matthew A. - Cheri Palmer
- Howe, Samuel Gridley - Jenni Larson
- Hudson, Grace Carpenter - Julie Johnson
- Hughes, Langston - Sara Erickson
- Johnson, Nkosi - Alisa Smith
- Jones, Mary Harris - Krista Dougal
- Keller, Helen - Sean Speckart
- Kennedy, John F. - Tamara Bowman
- King, Corretta Scott - Crystal Woytko
- King, Jr., Dr. Martin Luther - Lindsay Willardson
- Kopp, Wendy - Debora Bowman
- LaFlesche, Suzette - Lorane Wilson
- Lange, Dorothea - Erika Wardle
- Las Casas, Bartolome - Laura McCarthy
- Lincoln, Abraham - Kate Robinson
- Little Rock Nine - Piper Squire
- Luther, Martin - Lori Newbold
- Macy, Ann (Annie Sullivan) - Jami Olsen
- Mandela, Nelson - Holly Jenkins
- Marshall, Judge Thurgood - Amanda Shupe
- Meredith, James - Patrice Howard
- Mitchell, Jackie - Shannon Harris
- Montessori, Maria - Kara Dixon
- Mother Teresa - Allison Sonntag
- Muhammad - Weston
- O'Conner, Sandra Day - Kalie Coy
- O'neil, Buck - Dave Barker
- Owens, Jesse - Jill Christensen
- Parks, Rosa - Holly Pettit
- Parks, Rosa - Peggy Vernon
- Payton, Carolyn - Annai Smith
- Riis, Jacob - Jamie Miner
- Roosevelt, Eleanor - Jennifer Atkinson
- Sanders, Malika - Kim Nisson
- Sanger, Margaret - Teresa Smith
- Schindler, Oskar - Lindsey Dickison
- Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy - Rachel Richards
- Sinclair, Upton - Kristi Rich
- Smith, Joseph Jr. - Brooke Pulsipher
- Standing Bear, Luther - Shani Ross
- Starr, Belle - Kim White
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Joni Crosbie
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady - Marilyn Julander
- TenBoom, Corrie - Camille Campbell
- Thorpe, Jim - Hilary Holmes
- Truth, Sojourner - Burgandy Hess
- Tubman, Harriet - Alyson Goodey
- Wallace, William - Rachel Page
- Wattleton, Faye - Meghan Downs
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. - Emili Wall
- White, Ryan - Beth Cade
- Willard, Emma Hart - Melissa Olsen-Willard
- Winnemucca, Sarah - Sara Hauver
- Wollstonecraft, Mary - Jamie Hunter
- Wycliffe, John - Bridgette Burbank
- Young, Brigham - Jeffery Clift