The latest issue of Smithsonian Magazine reports the results of a recent survey in which 2000 high school juniors and seniors were asked to list their Top Ten Famous Americans excluding U.S. presidents and first ladies.
Tbe results reflect the push to make history as taught in public schools more multicultural. The top three famous Americans were Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman. All fine Americans and worthy of honor to be sure.
Others on the list in no particular order included Ben Franklin, Oprah Winfrey(!), Albert Einstein (dead last at No. 10), Thomas Edison, Marilyn Monroe, Amelia Earhart, and Susan B. Anthony.
I was relieved to see no overpaid sports figures but a little sad that Neil Armstrong didn't make the cut.
Being the first human to set foot on a celestial body outside the Earth is, in my opinion, notoriously heroic and worthy of recognition in every generation.
After all, it was one giant step for all mankind. Wasn't it?
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