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African activist. Nobel Peace Prize (2004)
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American psychiatrist, parapsychologist, writer, & professor at Harvard Medical School. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, a leading researcher and writer on alien abduction experiences
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(Born 1914) First African American supervisor at the United States Department of Veteran Affairs and supercentenarian
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An activist and the national co-chair for the Women's March. She is an advocate of gun control, feminism and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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A lobbyist and political consultant. He was an adviser to the presidential campaigns of Republicans Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, and was a national chairman of the presidential campaign of Donald Trump
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Vice Presidential candidate under the New American Independent Party in Colorado
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Civil rights activist, born 1925. After her children had been jailed during schoolkid civil rights protests, she felt the need to stand with them. She participated in the Selma march of 1965. She was one of the marchers tear gassed on 'Bloody Sunday', aft
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Civil Rights Activist during the Selma campaign. Was jailed as a tenth grader after student protests, and later tear gassed with his family during the Bloody Sunday March in 1965
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Running for President 2024 as a Libertarian
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Peace Activist was one of the Milwaukee 14
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South African Poet and activist. Hugh Masekela's younger sister
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Actor and activist; son of actor Morgan Mason and singer Belinda Carlisle; grandson of actor James Mason
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2020 Republican candidate for President (challenged Trump in the primary)
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Holocaust Survivor portrayed in film 'Memoirs of Holocaust' Writing Teacher!
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Former PM of Poland
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Thomas McCarthy (3)Firefighter, 9/11 survivor
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Centenarian (1899-2008). One of the last women alive who voted in 1920, a 1918 Flu survivor, and the oldest Olympic torch bearer on the road to Salt Lake City in 2002
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2022 candidate for MO US Senate, waved guns at protestors
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Gay activist; husband of Jack Baker; in Minnesota 1971 they became the first same-sex couple to marry in the US
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'Tuskegee Airmen' (both Maintenance Chief & Pilot)
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Former member of the Black Panther Party, who was found guilty of murder of New York Panther Alex Rackley in 1970 and released in the 1980's
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1960s civil rights activist/organized a boycott against a chain of stores (OK Supermarkets) that was exploiting and disrespecting the community where it relied on its profits
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Recognized as the founder of National Grandparents Day
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Member of the 'Clinton 12', where a dozen students became the first to integrate a school in the South in the fall of 1956
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American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of though
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LA City Controller. Also ran for Congress 3 times
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2021 Libertarian nominee for NJ Governor
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Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1992
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Civil Rights Mississippi
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former NAACP president
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Gay rights activist; murdered in 1978; his life was the basis for the movie 'Milk'
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(6 July 1874-23 Feb. 1970), Democratic partyactivist and feminist
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Welsh Professor who was a tutor to a 20 year old Prince Charles. It was portrayed in the tv show the 'Tywysog Cymru' episode of The Crown. He was vice president of Plaid Cymru, a political party advocating Welsh independence from the United Kingdom
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Alcatraz Inmate/Political activist, member Puerto Rican Nationalist Party/advocate Puerto Rican independence. 3/11/54, Rafael with fellow Nationalists entered US Capitol building armed with auto-pistols, fired 30 shots. 5 congressmen hit, all survived
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2022 Libertarian candidate for FL US Senate
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Japanese-American Hiroshima survivor (1931-2023). American born, family moved to Hiroshima when he was five. Returned to the US after the war
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Author, political strategist, civil rights activist and public affairs adviser; best known for his work in anti-war and gay rights advocacy
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2020 constitution party nominee for Vice President. Died in 2022
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Civil Rights Activist. Widow of Oliver Brown, the lead plaintiff in the 1954 landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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President of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Spain (28 November 2006 - 27 December 2010)
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Documentary Filmmaker, author, labor/consumer advocate - Roger & Me, the big one, Bowling For Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11
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Polish Activist. Born: 11/13/1904
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Canadian physician and prominent pro choice advocate who has fought numerous legal battles for that cause
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US Politician, VT (1810-98) House 1855-67, Senate 1867-98. One of the founders of the Rep. Party. Pushed laws for federal funds to colleges, creation of Statuary Hall in the Capitol, helped draft 14th Amendment
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Former Italian terrorist turned writer, often speaks about his times with the Red Brigades
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Member of the Little Rock Nine; group of African-American students who enrolled in all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 1999
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Anti-Apartheid activist. Escaped from Pretoria Local Prison in 1979. The character of Leonard Fontaine in the film Escape from Pretoria is based on him
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White student civil rights activist, born 1941. Sit-ins and Freedom Rider, jailed. Raised in the deep south by a racist family whose ideas she had to fight against
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Centenarian (1899-2009). 1918 Flu survivor. One of the last living women to vote in the 1920 election. Teacher, and reading advocate throughout her life. Died 3 days before her 110th birthday
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Bishop Abel Muzorewa, 85, the first black prime minister of an interim white-dominated government before Zimbabwe's independence
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American economist, former university president, education adviser and civil rights advocate. One of Myers' most significant contributions is where he fought to sustain the establishment of historically black colleges
