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political and social activist
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Civil rights figure, Montgomery bus boycott. Her mother was a lifelong childhood friend of Rosa Parks, and Lacey as a young woman worked as an assistant to the MIA, led by Martin Luther King to organize the bus boycott after Parks' arrest
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Civil Rights Activist
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Spent a decade working as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse in both hospitals and schools in the UK and Australia after graduating from university with a degree in Mental Health. Now a full-time writer living in West London
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American billionaire, author, philanthropist, art collector. He and his brother, Ronald Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estee Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune. Co - founder and chairman of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
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Army captain helped plan invasion of Normandy
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '301st Fighter Squadron & 332nd Fighter Group' flew the pt-17, bt-13, at-6, p-39, p-40, p-47, p-51, at-11, b-25
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Women's equality activist; inspiration of President Obama's Fair Pay Act
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Civil rights figure, born 1937. First integrated class of a Tennessee public school, 1955. Later, did local sit-ins. Career developing lasers, semiconductors and fiber optics. Saw Eisenhower at Union Station during a DC trip in the 1950s
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Irish retired nurse and activist, lives in St. Albans, England (born March 24, 1933) Main character of a true story based on the book 'The Lost Child of Philomena Lee' by Martin Sixsmith. The book was filmed in 2013 as a 'Philomena'
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Hitlers messenger boy, author, peace activist
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Pioneering gay rights activist and writer, born 1935. President of NYC Mattachine Society in the 60s, the premiere gay rights group before Stonewall. Led 1966 NYC gay 'Sip-In' protest, and covered Stonewall as a reporter, whose on-scene account was the fi
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Former reporter and author of the NYTs best-seller 'Breakfast at Sally's', a memoir detailing his fall from affluence to homelessness. Currently speaks around the country and advocates for helping the homeless
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Supreme Court: Social worker and civil rights activist, lead plaintiff in the landmark First Amendment case Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
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American businessman who is the current president and CEO of Stew Leonard's, a supermarket chain based in CT and NY. Founded the Stew Leonard III Children's Charities. Released a series of children's books featuring Stewie the Duck
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American author of mainly books about horses including the #1 NYT bestseller The Eighty-Dollar Champion. Formerly worked as a riding instructor and competed in equestrian events. Served in the Peace Corps. Brother is a retired tennis player
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Attorney for the Wounded knee fiasco.. AIM
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Staff writer at The New Yorker magazine & the author of the books The Rules do Not Apply and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vogue, Slate, & The NYT
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Kent State student shot in the stomach and leg during the 1970 shooting, the closest to the line of fire of all the students hit
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Canadian Politician, Humanitarian and AIDS Activist
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Secretary General/co-founder of the Council of Women World Leaders, which is composed 72 of women presidents, prime ministers, and heads of government. International, award-winning speaker/author re leadership, diversity, women in politics
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One of the children survivors of the 1963 Birmingham 16th Street Church bombing that killed 4 young girls during the civil rights era
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Minister and leader in the American civil rights movement
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Vegetarian activist and cattle rancher
