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Mental health advocate, writer, motivational speaker, life coach, podcaster
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Civil Rights Activist, 1961 Freedom Rider
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A former National Security Agency analyst and whistleblower who revealed the existence of the NSA and its worldwide covert surveillance network in an interview
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90 year old gay man whose coming out story went viral in 2020. Found out his one true love had died a few years earlier
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Mover/shaker civil rights movement
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Civil rights activist (b. 1930), one of the last living organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Named recording secretary of the boycott's MIA group, to Martin Luther King's presidency of the group. Pastor of one of the churches bombed during the boycot
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Wrote a diary during the siege of Sarajevo- Often Called 'The Anne Frank Of Sarajevo'(Author Zlata's Diary)- well known peace and human rights activist
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WWII Nurse, born 1923. First African American nurse to teach at Rhode Island College. Honored by Rhode Island Senate for lifetime work with children of Providence
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Co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal, columnist and long-time activist. Served as President of TransAfrica Forum and was formerly the Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO
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African American WWII veteran. Montford Marines, served in Guam during WWII
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American attorney and women's rights activist
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South African rape survivor, anti-rape activist, founded the Jes Foord Foundation
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Larry Alt and Pete Forcelli, agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), helped expose Operation Fast and Furious scandal, that resulted in federally-monitored guns ending up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels
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Cuban writer and political activist Carlos Franqui, an important figure in the Cuban revolution
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An American Reform rabbi who served as the CEO of the United Jewish Appeal and was the founding president of the Wexner Foundation
