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Michigan VIPs – Groups/Things
Auto Workers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Auto_Workers
Lumberjacks
http://www.michigan.gov/mikids/0,1607,7-163-15941_20565---,00.html
http://www.misd.net/IL/Lessons/wq/lumber.htm
Miners – Copper
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/prehist/mining/copper.html
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/cophistory/cophist.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_mining_in_Michigan
Miners – Iron
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/prehist/mining/iron.html
http://www.michiganhistorymagazine.com/kids/pdfs/mhkwin02a.pdf
Potawatomi
http://www.potawatomi.org/Culture/History/default.aspx
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar442080&st=potawatomi
Mackinac Bridge
http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/history/macbridge/mac_1.html
http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=156
Soo Locks
http://huron.lre.usace.army.mil/SOO/lockhist.html
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar520100&st=soo+locks
Michigan VIPs - Individuals
Abbott, Jim
Baseball player
http://www.jimabbott.info/biography.html
Archer, Dennis
Former Detroit mayor and Michigan Supreme Court Justice
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar752302&st=dennis+archer
http://www.abanet.org/media/archerbio.html
Beaumont, William
Doctor
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ba-Be/Beaumont-William.html
http://www.faqs.org/health/bios/21/William-Beaumont.html
Berry, Gordy, Jr.
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar723921
http://www.motownmuseum.com/mtmpages/index.html# - click on his name for information
Bissell, Anna
Businesswoman
http://hall.michiganwomenshalloffame.org/
Scroll down to find her name.
Bunche, Ralph
Man who helped form the United Nations and recipient of the Noble Peace Prize in 1950
http://www.pbs.org/ralphbunche/
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1950/bunche-bio.html
http://www.thepeacemission.com/ralph-bunche.htm
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar082580&st=ralph+bunche
Cadillac, Antoine
Found of Detroit
http://www.historydetroit.com/people/antoine_cadillac.asp
http://members.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/cadillac.shtml
Carson, Ben
Surgeon
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/car1bio-1
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar748881&st=ben+carson
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/website?id=http://www.carsonscholars.org
Cass, Lewis
Governor of the Michigan Territory
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/gallery/73gal.html
(National Portrait Gallery)
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar098720&st=Cass%2C+Lewis
Chaffee, Roger
Astronaut from Grand Rapids
http://www.answers.com/topic/roger-b-chaffee
http://amfcse.org/honor/chaffee.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollo204/zorn/chaffee.htm
Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret
Abolitionist from Lenawee Country
http://hall.michiganwomenshalloffame.org/ (Scroll down to Chandler)
http://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/chandler.htm
Chrysler, Walter
Automaker
http://www.kshs.org/portraits/chrysler_walter.htm
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar114120
Clemenc, Anna (Annie)
Heroine
http://www.michiganwomenshalloffame.org/
Dow, Herbert Henry
Founder of Dow Chemical Company and his son
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/45.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/dow.html
Durant, Billy
Founder of General Motors
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=651
http://clubs.hemmings.com/frameset.cfm?club=durant
Edison, Thomas A
Inventor
http://www.thomasedison.com/biography.html
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9284349
http://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar173960
Edmonds, Sarah Emma
Civil War spy
http://www.civilwarhome.com/edmondsbio.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWthompsonF.htm
Etheridge, Annie
Civil War soldier
http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1035.html
http://civilwarwomen.blogspot.com/2007/01/annie-blair-etheridge.html
http://www.civilwar.com/union-women/mrs-annie-etheridge.html
Ford, Betty
Wife of President Gerald Ford
http://hall.michiganwomenshalloffame.org/honoree.php?C=63&A
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/grf/bbfbiop.asp
http://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar725187
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first_ladies/bettyford/
Ford, President Gerald R.
President of the United States
http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/grf/fordbiop.asp
http://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar204070
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/geraldford/
Ford, Henry
Auto industry
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/default.asp#childhood
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Ford-Henry.html
http://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar204085
Franklin, Aretha
Singer
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/franklin_a.html
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar209250&st=Franklin%2C+Aretha
Freeman, Julia Wheelock
Michigan’s Florence Nightingale
http://hall.michiganwomenshalloffame.org/
Gillette, Genevieve
Champion of Michigan Parks
Michigan Women Hall of Fame
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_19271_19357-186606--,00.html
Haviland, Laura
Abolitionist
http://hall.michiganwomenshalloffame.org/ - scroll down to her name
http://learningtogive.org/papers/paper227.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Smith_Haviland
Houghton, Douglass
http://www.rpi.edu/about/hof/houghton.html
http://www.famousamericans.net/douglashoughton/
Howe, Gordie
Hockey player
http://www.hockey-fans.com/players/howe.php
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Howe-Gordie.html
Kellogg, W.K.
Inventor
http://kelloggs.mediaroom.com/file.php/120/BIO+Will+Keith+Kellogg.pdf
http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=114&ItemID=1&CID=297&NID=152&&LanguageID=0
LaFramboise, Magdelaine
Fur trader
http://hall.michiganwomenshalloffame.org/ - scroll down to her name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_La_Framboise
La Salle, Sieur de
Explorer
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar313700&st=La+Salle%2C+Sieur+de
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0828919.html
Louis, Joe
Boxer
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Lo-Ma/Louis-Joe.html
McCoy, Elijah
Inventor
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar351070
http://www.africawithin.com/bios/elijah_mccoy.htm
Parks, Rosa
Civil rights leader
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/extmedia?id=ar715260&st=Parks%2C+Rosa&em=lr003160
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
Polacco, Patricia
Chilldren’s author/illustrator
http://www.patriciapolacco.com/author/bio/bio.html
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3506
Pontiac
Native American chief
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar439060
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/p/pontiac.shtml
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/pontiac/
Reuther, Walter
Labor leaders
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/reuther.cfm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAreuther.htm
http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/reuther.html
Ross, Diana
Singer
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar724079&st=diana+ross
http://www.answers.com/topic/diana-ross?cat=entertainment
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9464240
Shaw, Anna Howard
Suffragist
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar505180
http://www.michiganepic.org/lumbering/bios/BioAS.html
Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar568980
http://www.sojournertruth.org/History/Biography/Default.htm
http://www.civilwarhome.com/truthbio.htm
Van Allsburg, Chris
Author/Illustrator
http://www.chrisvanallsburg.com/biography.html
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3697
Williams, G. Mennen
Govenor, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan
http://www.micourthistory.org/bios.php?id=95
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Mennen_Williams
Young, Coleman
Former Mayor of Detroit
http://www.cayf.org/about_person.php
X, Malcolm
Civil rights leader
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar340080
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/about/bio.htm
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Lo-Ma/Malcolm-X.html
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