Historical Figures from United States

The most influential historical figures born in or associated with United States.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Activist · 1929 – 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who championed nonviolent resistance to racial injustice and became the most prominent voice of the movement for equality in the United States.

I Have a Dream speech
Civil rights leadership

Wright Brothers

Inventor · 1867 – 1948

The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were American inventors who designed, built and flew the world's first successful powered aeroplane in 1903, launching the age of human flight.

First powered flight (1903)
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