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Hiroshima survivor, born in 1926 in California, moved to Japan at age 6. Drafted into the Japanese army during WWII, he was helping to dig an air raid shelter into a hill about a mile and a half from Hiroshima's center when the bomb hit. He emerged to see
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Environmental sociologist and author. Research involves environmental history, justice, & policy, leisure and recreation, gender and development, urban affairs, race relations, collective action and social movements, etc
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Hudson Taylor (2)Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization Athlete Ally, former wrestling coach at Columbia University and a prominent straight ally and civil rights activist of LGBT rights
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Latino-American author of young adult novels, best known for the book Cemetery Boys which was a New York Times bestseller and won numerous awards. Thomas is transgender and uses the he and they pronouns
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Civil Rights Activist, member of CORE, Freedom Rider on bus that was firebombed in 1961
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Puerto Rican-Cuban writer and poet whose memoir Down These Mean Streets about rampant racism in his NY barrios was banned in some places but considered required reading in others. Spent 7 years in prison for attempted armed robbery
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Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, author of 'Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life & Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast' and director and screenwriter of the documentary 'We Are All Smith Islanders'
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American free speech activist known for his role in the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court case, which ruled that School could not punish her for wearing a black armband in school in support of a truce in the Vietnam War
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As a girl, was one of the students connected to the Topeka, KS Brown v. Board of Education case. Her mother was the adult plaintiff on her behalf, along with several other Topeka area families. Her mother was also actively involved in organizing the case
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Peace Corps volunteer Jim Toner relates the story of his 74-year-old Irish-Catholic father's unexpected visit to Sri Lanka in Serendib
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Award-winning author and professor of education policy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Chairman of education companies in Ghana (Omega Schools Franchise Ltd) and India creating low cost chains of low cost private schools
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Civil Rights Activist/ Sept 11, 1963, along with 2 other courageous students, seized the opportunity to change dark traditions of segregation at University of South Carolina & became 1st African American students to attend the university
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Civil rights figure. Father a plaintiff on her behalf in Delaware's Belton v. Gebhart case that was part of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit
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American writer, born 1947. Military family, descended from Thomas Jefferson. 'Dress Gray', novelist. Village Voice writer, stumbled upon the 1969 Stonewall uprising, and one of the first journalists to cover it
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German entrepreneur and billionaire who co-founded the German software giant SAP AG in 1972 together with Hans-Werner Hector, Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner and Claus Wellenreuther
