The Erie Canal — good point. Then I’ll add Robert Moses and William Levitt to the list too. Also Mr. Central Park: Fredrick Law Olmsted. I should know the inventor of the Shopping Center — he’s a Chicago area developer from the 1920’s, but I forgot his name. Include him too.
The point of the article was to compare reasonable lists to the list 22,000 public high school students came up with.
That list:
1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. Rosa Parks
3. Harriet Tubman
4. Susan B. Anthony
5. Benjamin Franklin
6. Amelia Earhart
7. Oprah Winfrey
8. Marilyn Monroe
9. Thomas Edison
10. Albert Einstein