GENERAL BIOGRAPHY RESOURCES:
Click on an underlined phrase to go to a website.

Biography & Literature Resource Center databases You must have a valid Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library card handy in order to access these resources from outside the library. Look up your famous American here.

Notable Biographies 

SPECIFIC FAMOUS AMERICANS:

Bessie Coleman

Christina Aguilera's website

Louisa May Alcott at Online-literature.com

Louisa May Alcott at Womenshistory.about.com

Louisa May Alcott at Greatwomen.org

Laila Ali's website

Laila Ali at Answers.com

Marian Anderson at Notable biographics.com

Marian Anderson at afrovoices.com

Maya Angelou:  question and answer biography format

Benjamin Banneker:  biography and letters to and from Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Banneker at About.com

Benjamin Banneker at Answers.com

Benjamin Banneker at Blackpast.org

Nellie Bly at pbs.org

Laura Bridgman

Cesar Chavez

Cinque at www.law.umkc.edu

Crazy Horse

Dorothea Dix at nursingadvocacy.org

Dorothea Dix at www.webster.edu

W.E.B. Dubois

Amelia Earhart

50 Cent

Morgan Freeman

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Matthew Henson:  brief biography

Matthew Henson at thinkquest.org

Matthew Henson at nationalgeographic.com

Matthew Henson at unmuseum.mus.pa.us

Gregory Hines

Jennifer Hudson

Samuel L. Jackson at thebiographychannel.co.uk

Samuel L. Jackson at talktalk.co.uk

Samuel L. Jackson at www.answers.com

Lebron James at notablebiographies

Lebron James at gale.cengage.com

Barack Obama

 Satchel Paige

 Colin Powell at blackpast.org

Colin Powell at notablebiographies.com

Colin Powell at achievement.org

Sally Ride at nasa.gov

Sally Ride at biography.com

Chris Rock at biography.com

Chris Rock at comedians.about.com

Sojourner Truth at lkwdpl.org

Sojourner Truth at notablebiographies.com

Denzel Washington

Venus Williams at thebiographychannel.co.uk

Venus Williams at answers.com