Perfecting Mankind!
Valeria Hazelwood
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
He was an American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He was the first person to open up a school for the deaf. Before he started Gallaudet University people who were deaf were locked up because they couldn't do anything with them.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
Robert Owen
A Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
Elihu Burritt
An American diplomat, philanthropist and social activist.
William Lloyd Garrison
A prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Neal Dow
Nicknamed the "Napoleon of Temperance" and the "Father of Prohibition". He was an American politician.
Horace Mann
An American education reformist. As a politician he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834 to 1837
Dorothea Dix
Started a program where all the disabled people could come. People who were disabled were locked up in prisons and treated horribly
Dr. Sylvester Graham
An American dietary reformer. He was an early advocate of dietary reform in the United States and was most notable for his emphasis on vegetarianism and the temperance movement.