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Arkansans Who are Famous

Arkansans Who are Famous. Famous Arkansans. Famous Arkansans. Secondary Level: 9-12 N7.AH.9-12.2: Describe significant contributions made by Arkansans in the following areas: art, acting, business, military, writing, music, medicine/science, government , sports and activism.

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Arkansans Who are Famous

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  1. Arkansans Who are Famous

  2. Famous Arkansans Famous Arkansans • Secondary Level: 9-12 • N7.AH.9-12.2: Describe significant contributions made by Arkansans in the following areas: art, acting, business, military, writing, music, medicine/science, government, sports and activism.

  3. Famous Arkansans Famous Defined Famous is someone who is easily recognized or a well-known person.

  4. Famous Arkansans Arkansans Defined • An Arkansan is defined as someone who was born in the state of Arkansas. • What do you think about this definition?

  5. Famous Arkansans How can significant be defined?

  6. Famous Arkansans Contribution is difficult to define without using the word, “contribute.” It could be defined as helping to develop or helping make successful or just giving. What do you think?

  7. Famous Arkansans Can someone be famous without being significant or making a contribution? And can a person be significant and make contributions and not be famous?

  8. Famous Arkansans Let’s take a look at some famous Arkansans. Determine if they have made significant contributions.

  9. Famous Arkansans Daisy Bates was born in Huttig in 1913 or 1914. The exact date is not known.

  10. Famous Arkansans Bates advocated civil rights for African-Americans. She became known internationally in 1957 due to her involvement in the Little Rock Central High School Crisis as mentor to the Little Rock Nine.

  11. Famous Arkansans Her desegregation experiences were recorded in her memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock. In her honor, an official state holiday was established in 2001. Background of Bates

  12. Famous Arkansans The “Little Rock Nine”.

  13. Famous Arkansans Maurice“Footsie” Britt was born in Carlisle on June 29, 1919. He played pro football before the U.S. entered WWII. http://www.commandposts.com/2011/02/the-nfl-and-the-medal-of-honor/

  14. Famous Arkansans Britt fought in WWII and became the first person in United States history to earn all the army’s top awards. He also served two terms as lieutenant governor under Win Rockefeller.

  15. Famous Arkansans Medal of Honor.

  16. Famous Arkansans Paul “Bear”Bryant was born September 11, 1913, in Moro Bottom near Kingsland.

  17. Famous Arkansans Coach Bryant was one of the most successful college football coaches in history. During the time he was coach at the University of Alabama, the team won five national championships.

  18. Famous Arkansans Bryant was selected as National Coach of the year four times. http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2012/bear-bryant-50-quotes/

  19. Famous Arkansans Glen Campbell was born in in Delight on April 22, 1936.

  20. Famous Arkansans Campbell won four Grammys in country and pop music. He received the Country Music Association’s top Entertainer of the Year Award.

  21. Famous Arkansans He appeared in his own TV musical variety show and in the movies, True Grit and Norwood. Life in Delight, Arkansas

  22. Famous Arkansans Johnny Cash was born February 26, 1932, in Kingsland. He soon moved to the Dyess Community.

  23. Famous Arkansans • Dyess was a planned community to assist farmers during the Great Depression. • Cash received many awards during his lifetime and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  24. Famous Arkansans Not only was Cash a world renowned singer and songwriter, he later became an actor and author. The movie, Walk the Line, was about the first half of his life.

  25. Famous Arkansans Boyhood home in the Dyess Community

  26. Famous Arkansans William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton was born August 19, 1946, in Hope, but graduated from Hot Springs High School.

  27. Famous Arkansans Clinton was the 40th and 42nd governor of Arkansas and the 42nd president of the United States. As governor, he brought about economic and educational reforms.

  28. Famous Arkansans • While he was president, the U.S. enjoyed the longest sustained economic growth in the country’s history. • Growing up in Arkansas

  29. Famous Arkansans Great Seal of Arkansas Presidential Seal

  30. Famous Arkansans Carroll Cloar was born January 18, 1913. He grew up on a cotton farm in Earle. Painter from Earle

  31. Famous Arkansans Much of Cloar’s artwork recorded his memories of life in Eastern Arkansas and his family. He won national acclaim in the 1950s as a realist and surrealist painter.

  32. Famous Arkansans Wedding in East Arkansas

  33. Famous Arkansans Harvey Couch was born August 21, 1877, in Calhoun, Arkansas. Couch Bio

  34. Famous Arkansans Introducing phone and electrical service to the state promoted the economic growth for which Couch worked.

  35. Famous Arkansans Couch used the hydroelectric power available in the state to provide wide spread electrical power.

  36. Famous Arkansans Jimmy Driftwood was born in West Richwoods, Arkansas, on June 20,1907. James Corbitt Morris

  37. Famous Arkansans Driftwood was originally an educator and wrote one of his most famous songs (“Battle of New Orleans”) as a way for his students to remember the events of the War of 1812.

  38. Famous Arkansans He was involved in the creation of the Arkansas Folk Festival and in facilitating the creation of the Buffalo River as the first National River.

  39. Famous Arkansans John Gould Fletcher was born in Little Rock on January 3, 1886, and became an internationally known poet and essayist.

  40. Famous Arkansans He won a Pulitzer Prize for his, Selected Poems, in 1938. John G. Fletcher bio

  41. Famous Arkansans Al Green was born into a musical family on April 13, 1946.

  42. Famous Arkansans Green earned eight Grammies in the gospel area and had eight top 10 songs. Hit songs

  43. Famous Arkansans Al Green’s early life is recorded in the movie, Gospel According to Al Green. He is pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis, Tennessee.

  44. Famous Arkansans John Grisham was born on February 8, 1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

  45. Famous Arkansans Internationally known best-selling author of legal thrillers, many of his books have been made into movies. Grisham, the man

  46. Famous Arkansans Mike Huckabee • was born in Hope on August 8, 1955. He is the only Republican governor in Arkansas to be elected to two four-year terms.

  47. Famous Arkansans Huckabee served as lieutenant governor before he became governor. While governor, he created an insurance program for uninsured kids. Welcome to ARKids First!

  48. Famous Arkansans Governor Huckabee also encouraged school reform and consolidation. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2007. Currently he is a TV and radio show host.

  49. Famous Arkansans John H. Johnson was born January 19, 1918, in Arkansas City.

  50. Famous Arkansans Johnson launched Ebony and Jet magazines targeting a black audience. Rags to riches

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