Sacajawea is the Indian woman who led Lewis and Clark on their quest to find the Pacific Ocean. Most people do not know that she wasn't actually an official member of the expedition party. Her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, was hired as an interpreter and took Sacajawea along. She was allowed to join the party as an unofficial member because the captains thought she would be useful to help in communicating with some of the Indian tribes they met and also in obtaining horses from her native tribe, the Shoshone. This "nobody" was thrown into becoming one of the most famous heroines in history.
Frederick Douglass is one of the most famous African-Americans of the 19th century. He escaped from slavery and became one of the most well known leaders of the slavery abolitionist group. Douglass grew up a slave but became literate and began writing speeches and books against slavery. Thanks to him, slavery was abolished. 
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