8th Grade Memorial Project 2025

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Mrs. Myles

mylesj@stlukesct.org

Jose Alberto Gutierrez

Dustbin Man Builds Free Library of Thrown Away Books

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Man in Bogota uses old books to promote reading

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Toyo Miyatake

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The 97th Engineers

Black History in the Last Frontier: Alaska Highway Engineers

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Historical Vignette 130 - Road to Alaska

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The 97th Engineering Regiment (1941-1948)

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African American Regiments

Jeanne Villepreux-Power

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Biography in Context

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June Almeida

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Gale in Context Middle School

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American Beach

Abraham Lincoln Lewis

MaVynee Betsch

Kenichi Zenimura

Kip Tiernan/Rosie’s Place - 1st women’s homeless shelter in US

• https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/10/05/kip-tiernan-memorial-first-homeless-womens-shelter
• https://www.rosiesplace.org/who-we-are/our-history/kip-tiernan
• https://www.cityofboston.gov/cable/video_library.asp?id=26900
• https://go.gale.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=News&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&retrievalId=5d1c00f8-8e2d-47ab-a839-390b0d2bc2a6&hitCount=1&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA261337397&docType=Obituary&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZXAA-MOD1&prodId=UHIC&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA261337397&searchId=R1&userGroupName=new80206&inPS=true

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Ned Coll - Fought to free the beaches

• CT Mirror
• BlackPast
• Greenwich Time
• Gale

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Prudence Wright - Militiawoman

• American Battlefield Trust
• History of American Women
• Pepperell Historical Society
• Freedom’s Way

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Jennifer Keelan - Disability Rights Activist

• Jennifer’s Site
• History - Capital Crawl
• Gale - book review

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Ludlow Massacre - Coalminer Strike

• American Experience - PBS
• Library of Congress
• Britannica School

Chinese Massacre of 1871

• Los Angeles Public Library
• LAist - CA Public Radio
• Gale - Sort of???

The Bonus Army 1932

• National Park Service
• DC Police Memorial & Museum
• Dartmouth Theater Department

The Edmund Fitzgerald - largest shipwreck of the Great Lakes

• Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
• Explore Minnesota
• Britannica

Mario Molina - found ozone hole

• https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/mario-molina
• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03133-3
• https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1995/summary/

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Athletes involved in civil rights who are lesser known:

• Perry Wallace - 1st Black college basketball player
• Jack Johnson -- first Black heavyweight boxing champ
• Harry “Bucky” Lew - first Black player to integrate pro basketball, family had stop on the underground railroad
• Alice Coachman - first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal

Other amazing people who are lesser known:

• Gilbert Baker - creator of the Rainbow Flag
• Biddy Mason - former enslaved person, nurse, philanthropist, land owner and real estate investor (1800s)
• Desmond Doss - WWII medic,
• Alan Rabinowitz - first jaguar conservationist
• Chen Guangcheng - Chinese civil rights activist who has worked on human rights issues in rural areas of the People's Republic of China. Blind from an early age and self-taught in the law, Chen is frequently described as a "barefoot lawyer" who advocates for women's rights, land rights, and the welfare of the poor
• Victor Hugo Green - created Negro Motorist Green Book, places in the south that welcomed Black travelers

Lesser known events in history:

• Johnstown Flood
• Port Chicago Disaster
• Clinton 12 (before Little Rock 9)
• Noyes Academy (https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/noyes-academy/)
• Great Molasses Flood
• Malaga Island/Benjamin Darling/Casco Bay (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-dark-secrets-of-this-nowempty-island-in-maine)

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Sand Creek Massacre

• https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/opinion/remember-the-sand-creek-massacre.html
• https://www.nps.gov/sand/learn/historyculture/massacre.htm
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/horrific-sand-creek-massacre-will-be-forgotten-no-more-180953403/

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Henry “Box” Brown

• https://www.biography.com/activist/henry-box-brown

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Don’t forget: passwords are linked on libguide!

Judith Heumann

• https://www.ted.com/talks/judith_heumann_our_fight_for_disability_rights_and_why_we_re_not_done_yet?language=en
• https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/changing-the-face-of-disability-in-media/

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Ed Roberts

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ed-roberts-wheelchair-records-story-obstacles-overcome-180954531/
• https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/16/obituaries/edward-v-roberts-56-champion-of-the-disabled.html
• https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/07/27/roberts/

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Georgia Gilmore

• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/obituaries/georgia-gilmore-overlooked.html
• https://equalityarchive.com/history/georgia-gilmore/
• https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/01/15/577675950/meet-the-fearless-cook-who-secretly-fed-and-funded-the-civil-rights-movement

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Virginia Hall

• https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshallfame/html/hall.html
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-spy-known-limping-lady-helped-allies-win-wwii-180971889/
• https://www.intelligence.gov/people/barrier-breakers-in-history/662-1945-virginia-hall
• https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/711356336/a-woman-of-no-importance-finally-gets-her-due
• https://ee.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/207/Not-Bad-for-a-Girl-from-Baltimore.pdf
• https://time.com/5566062/virginia-hall/

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