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Benjamin Franklin
Serves on a committee of five who draft the Declaration of Independence -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson's Decleration of Indpendence is approved and signed -
Federick Douglass
lecturer for the Anti-Slavery society. -
Dorothea Dix
fought for the rights of the mentally ill, deaf and blind -
Mary McLeod Bethune
Became President of the National Association of Colored Women -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Creates New Deal to provide jobs and immediate relief from the Great Depression
