These paintings of fifty great Americans offer examples of what it means to have the freedom to speak the truth, while they remind us of our responsibility to make sure we are told the truth. Interest Level: 5-8 Reading Level: 8.3.

Jane Adams -- Muhammad Ali -- Susan B. Anthony -- James Baldwin -- Wendell Berry -- Rachel Carson -- Cesar Chavez -- Chief Joseph -- Noam Chomsky -- William Sloane Coffin -- Dorothy Day -- Frederick Douglass -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Dwight Eisenhower -- Emma Goldman -- Amy Goodman -- Woody Guthrie -- Doris Haddock (Granny D) -- Jim Hightower -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Molly Ivins -- Hary Harris Mother Jones -- Helen Keller -- Kathy Kelly -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Jonathan Kozol -- Dorothea Lange -- Lewis Lapham -- Frances Moore Lappe -- Perry Mann -- John Muir -- Ralph Nader -- Rosa Parks -- Paul Robeson -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Frank Serpico -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Samantha Smith -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Louis Studs Terkel -- Henry David Thoreau -- Sojourner Trugh -- Mark Twain -- Ida B. Wells -- Walt Whitman -- Judy Wicks -- Jody Williams -- Terry Tempest Williams -- Howard Zinn.