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Nobel prize winner 1970 for developement against world hunger. Born: 03/25/1914
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Indian actor , a social activist and rugby player
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Dutch officer for the Salvation Army, also writer
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Plaintiff in the case Bostock v. Clayton County, GA, heard by the US Supreme Court that helped end states' ability to fire employees solely for being members of the LGBT community
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One out of 4 who won nobel Peace price 2015 and she is from Tunis
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American author and speech expert. Co-editor of GIG: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. Co-wrote the screenplay for the film Basquiat. Has appeared on CNN, The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart, the BBC, and many others
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Martin Boyce (2)
Gay rights activist, veteran of the Stonewall uprising in 1969 -
One of the founders of 'The American Conservative Union'
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American Female Social Activist - Prominent Advocate For Gun Control In The United States Of America
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NYT bestselling author and speaker. Appeared on PBS-TV's Stories from the Stage. Recorded voices on Beavis and Butthead. 4-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Has performed two award-winning, critically-acclaimed comedic solo shows
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American Civil Rights Activist .As A 6 Year Old In 1960, She Became First African - American Child To Attend An All - White Elementary School In The US South Civil Rights Movement In Louisiana, New Orleans
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Surry County Deputy who took part in the Michael Vick investigation
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Tutored by Medgar Evers, Samuel Williams, J. Pious Barbour, & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as one of the 8 students in the only class Dr. King taught in his lifetime at Morehouse College/Known for activism, intellectual discipline, & oratory
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Tuskegee Airmen, Flew PT-17 Stearman, B-47, P-51 and F-80 Jet. Flew 20 different plane types
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Jennifer Brown (4)American Female Consultant. Award - Winning Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author And Diversity And Inclusion Expert. Founder of Jennifer Brown Consulting. Novel - 'Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will To Change' (2016)
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Larry Brown (6)
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American Former Female Civil Rights Activist, Wounded On 'Bloody Sunday' In Selma March In 1965. In 1968, Martin Luther King Hid Overnight At Her House In Greensboro After A Speech Two weeks Before His Assassination, As The KKK Searched The Area For Him
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Paul Butler (2) American lawyer, and current law professor of Georgetown. He is a leading criminal law scholar, particularly in the area of race and jury nullification. He has written 2 books including Chokehold: Policing Black Men
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American Female Historic Person - Civil Rights Activist. As A Girl Participated In The Student Protests That Led To The Davis v. School Board Of Prince Edward County Case That Became One Of The 5 Historic Brown v. Board Of Education Cases (1951)
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Argentinian famed inter-sex and trans-sex activist. Born female, he signed the Yogyakarta Principles accord and is a recipient of the Bob Hepple Equality Award
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One of the founders of, 'American Conservative Union,' right wing group
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Co-author of the series 'How Race Is Lived in America' which won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize, and A Journal for Jordan about the death of her fiance, Charles Monroe King, in the Iraq War and the journal he left for their son
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educator
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Canadian Jewish Female Musicologist And Human Rights Activist known For Secretly Bringing To \Freedom Thousands Of Jews Out of Syria Over A Period Of 28 Years
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Equity specialist manager who discovered a money manager, Bernard Madoff, generating a suspect 12% return for investors
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English Female Author, Doctor, Torture Survivor. And Activist - Novel - 'Audacity to Believe' (1977), 'Good Friday People' (1991), 'Sharing The Darkness: The Spirituality Of Caring' (1988), 'The Loneliest Journey' (1995)
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First person arrested during the Stonewall Rebellion, 28 June 1969
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Self proclaimed,world-renowned expert on marijuana cultivation
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Noted French Resistance Fighter. Born: 05/22/1915
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One of the founders of, 'American Conservative Union,' right wing group
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American contemporary theater director, choreographer, video and installation artist. Internationally recognized as a director, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist, and is considered a seminal figure in Asian American theatre
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American Female Athlete - Marahon Runner, Bowling, Figure Skating, And Tennis (Born Blind And With Mental Retaration). 'Special Olympic Games' - Running - 4 Gold Medals, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze. Bowling - 2 Gold. Skating - Silver. Tennis - Gold, Bronze Medals
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Is the founder of the non-profit organization Literacy Volunteers of America, now called ProLiteracy Worldwide in Syracuse, New York, in 1962. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in December 2006
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Founder of 'American Civil Rights Institute'
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Gay rights figure. Participant of the 1969 Stonewall Inn rebellion
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nobel peace laureate 1976
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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established scouting for all
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American cartoonist and children's book illustrator best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip Mama's Boyz and his Newberry Award-winning graphic novel New Kid
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Joe Darby (2)
Sergeant Joseph M. Darby, former U.S. Army Reservist known whistleblower in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal -
Tuskegee Airmen
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CEO of the 2016 and 2008 Democratic National Convention Committees, and the chief of staff to Howard Dean, the former chairman of the DNC. Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the US Department of Labor
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60's political activist educator
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Emergency physician and NYT best selling author of The Pact (winner of 'The Books for Better Life' Award) and The Stuff. Appeared on numerous talk and radio shows including Oprah, Dr. Oz, The Today Show, The View, Anderson Cooper 360 & NPR
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Tuskegee Airmen
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One of the famous war protesters from the the 1968 protests in Illonois
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Renowned penguin expert, scientist TED speaker and award-winning author. AKA The Penguin Lady
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Dave Dennis (2)
Civil Rights activist -
Whistleblower
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Civil Rights Activist, 1961 Freedom Rider
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Algiers Motel; a black security guard, witnessed the murders of 3 black men at the motel in 1967
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Artist and social activist, born 1969. Wrongfully convicted of murder after a trial with no evidence or motive, exonerated after serving 27 years. Acclaimed for his golf course artworks
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Transgender activist and model
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Tuskegee Airmen/Civilian Instructor 1942-1945
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Author, former activist, widow of activist Rudi Dutschke
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Landmark Case: Eckhardt was one of the students litigants in Tinker v Des Moines (1969), which defined the Constitutional Rights of students in US public school
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Watt's riot: Edelen was was a black cop during the riot, experienced a large amount of racism during his time in the LAPD
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Filmmaker, founder of a music label, motivational speaker, philanthropist and author. Ziman works as a writer, producer and director and is known internationally for her work on behalf of saving abandoned children
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Was an anti-war & environmental activist who became influential in various New Age movements during the 1970s. He was convicted in 2002, after spending 17 years on the run, for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend and is serving a life sentence
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'Tuskegee Airmen' one of their Aircraft Mechanics
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American teacher and anti-racism activist.
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Military Analyst. Policical Activist. Released the top secret Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. Born: 1931
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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
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Adapted her debut novel, 'The Resurrection of Alice', into a one-woman play that won the 2014 African-American Arts Alliance of Chicago Outstanding Actress Award, the 2014 Black Theater Alliance's Best Lead Actress Award (Chicago), etc
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Orangutan primatologist, Trimate, Leakey's Angel, Anthropologist, primatologist, scientist, conservationist, educator: for over four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo
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Philanthropist
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American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard
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Theoretical physicist. Served on Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Tech. Black History Month 2017 Honoree. Featured in TurboTax and Verizon commercials and on NOVA PBS programs on physics, notably The Elegant Universe (2003)
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Writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Author of The NYT bestseller, Bad Feminist. Editor for Gay Mag. Co-wrote 6 issues of a spin-off of Black Panther making her the 1st black woman to be a lead writer for Marvel
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Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's peace movement. Co-Awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize 'for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work
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Early Gay Rights figure, born 1936. Joined the Mattachine Society of Denver in 1957
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American (1910-2009), served in the Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War. Held as a POW from Jan 1938 to April 1939 in Spain. Had joined the Young Communist League in the early 1930s after a student trip to the Soviet Union
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Child involved with the 1950's Briggs v. Elliott case incorporated as part of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education Decision. His mother was the last living adult defendant when she died.
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Wife of Rev. Joseph Lowery, close friend and worker with MLK... Founder of SCLC
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Youtuber
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Well Known Temperance Speaker
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Participated in the 1963 Selma civil rights campaign as a 16 year old boy, including the 'Bloody Sunday' march
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Reverend to Rosa Park's Church; Secretary of the MIA aka Montgomery Improvement Association that helped support the boycott, appeared at meetings led by MLK
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White student who sued the Univ. of Michagan,for denying her admittance. Affirmative Action supporter and worker for
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Civil rights lawyer, preacher (born 1930). Defended Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, and the MIA during the Montgomery bus boycott. Worked with Martin Luther King and defended him in court. Named National Bar Association president in 1985
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Newspaper editor, politician and reformer. Encouraged readers to "Go West"
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Polish nurse who gained international recognition for aiding Polish Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during WWII. Author of In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
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Organizes 'Wiener Opernball'
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Original founder of the SDS movement(Students for a Democratic Society) 1962
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The Poland native also founded the 1939 Club, an organization of Holocaust survivors, and was a board member of the L.A. Museum of the Holocaust
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Author
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Author of The Sky's the Limit. Self-help expert
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Animal rights activist who is serving ten months in prison for raiding a mink farm
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African American WWII veteran. A Montford Marine, served in Guam in 1944
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Author, scientist and public health advocate whose research exposed the Flint water crisis. Her book What the Eyes Don't See, was named 1 of the NY Times 100 most notable books of the year. Founded the Pediatric Public Health Initiative
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American real estate investor, author and philanthropist from NYC. Along with his now ex-wife Jane Rosenthal, and Robert De Niro, he co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Institute. Chairman of Turtle Pond Publications
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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Pioneering Gay Rights activist (1912-2002). 'Father of the Gay Rights Movement', co-founded The Mattachine Society in 1950. Also an activist for labor, communist, and Native American issues
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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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Civil Rights Activist.Born: 03/24/1912
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American author, speaker and leadership coach. In 1995 she published The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, which has been heralded as having introduced the language of inclusion into the work environment
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Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Michigan
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Civil Rights/was in the forefront of the civil rights battle as he bravely stepped up to participate in the sit - in at the Woolworth?s diner. 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit in
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Gay Rights activist, present at the Stonewall rebellion in 1969. A founder, director of the Stonewall Veterans Association
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Pierre Henry (2)Tuskegee Airmen
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President and CEO of Fair Food Network, a non-profit organization based in Ann Arbor Michigan, is a national leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems and the author of Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
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Hinton was falsely arrested and held on Alabama's Death Row for nearly 30 years. His 1985 conviction was thrown out in 2014 after the Supreme Court found his case to be lacking any proof and found the defense did not act properly
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Author, Chairman & former CEO of Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt producer. Chairman and founding Partner of Just Label It and Organic Voices. serve on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations under Obama
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American NYT bestselling author and the creator of the Mara Dyer Trilogy, consisting of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, The Evolution of Mara Dyer, and The Retribution of Mara Dyer. Formerly an attorney who worked in anti-terrorism litigation
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Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
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Rape victim who became an activist. She changed New Hampshire law.
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Hooks, a lawyer, minister and pioneering judge who revived a flagging NAACP after he became its executive director in the late 1970s
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '99th Fighter Squadron' 'Class of 44-J'!
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Civil Rights activist, part of the Selma marches, including the infamous 'Bloody Sunday' of 1965
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One if the freedom riders, on the bus
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Attorney and Civil Rights activist, born 1947. Student participant in the Selma to Montgomery marches, including the violent Bloody Sunday clash
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Algiers Motel; as a young white female, Hysell witnessed the events at the motel in 1967 and was harassed and beaten brutally by the police
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Author, health advocate and radio personality and the founder and president of the Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center. Co-founder (w/ the late radio personality, Don Imus) and co-director of the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer
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Holocaust survivor Lithuania
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Ukrainian singer (Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova), born 1983. Won Eurovision Song Contest 2016, with song '1944' about the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
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Co-author of 'The Power of Nice' and 'Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible' with famed attorney, Ronald M. Shapiro. Co-founder of the Shapiro Negotiations Institute. Has worked with some of America?s leading businesses, including Gillette and Black & Decker
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Politics/Activist
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CEO of AARP. Former senior adviser, chief of staff, and chief operating officer of the Library of Congress. Was special assistant to Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole at the U.S. Department of Transportation
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Co-author of 'The Stuff: Unlock Your Power to Overcome Challenges, Soar, and Succeed' with Dr. Sampson Davis. Derek Jeter's sister. Founder of The Stuff Movement foundation
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American journalist, TV producer and author of The Book of Matt. Marched in the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979. Won 2006 Writers Guild Award for Analysis, Feature or Commentary
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Speaker, author of 'Believing in Magic' and wife of Magic Johnson. Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Magic Johnson Foundation. Founder of CJ by Cookie Johnson, a premium denim line
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Presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, speaker and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013
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Dan Johnston (2) Landmark Case: Johnston won the US Landmark Case Tinker v Des Moines (1969) as a 30 year old lawyer, just one year out of law school
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Politician & leader of the Civil Rights movement. 1st African American elected to Senate & 1st southern black female elected to the US House of Representatives. Received Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Author, american business executive & civil rights activist who worked for various civil rights organizations & law firms before becoming a close advisor to President Bill Clinton. Former executive director of the United Negro College Fund
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Computer hacker who exposed the illicit global mobile phone tracking of all users, regardless of GPS or Location Services settings, on the Apple iPhone, Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone mobile devices
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President of the Loukoumi Make A Difference Foundation and author of the Loukoumi children's Books. President and co-founder of the Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund
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Activist. Wife of Judge John W. Keefe
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American author & historian. Won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Founding dir of the Anti-Racist Research & Policy Center at American University
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Forida Author & Civil Rights Activist
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Father of slain Muslim Army captain challenged for Donald Trump at the DNC/His bold speech was well received
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American artist, activist, and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights
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American author and social entrepreneur. Served as SEO of City Year, an AmeriCorps national service program he co-founded. Led two unsuccessful campaigns for U.S. Senator from MA. Founded and worked with numerous social and political orgs
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Received the 2017 National Jewish Book Award for Lioness. First woman to carry a Torah to the Western Wall. Former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America which voted to ordain women as rabbis and cantors in 1983
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Served as a developmental advisor for Sesame Street and HBO films for children. Appears regularly on Good Morning America. Author of How Toddlers Thrive. Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development
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USDA agent who took part in the Michael Vick investigation
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Speaker, 21 year marine officer and author of From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava. Client success executive at AirStrip. Has appeared frequently on both network (Fox, NBC) and local television news
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Producer, entertainment lawyer, manager and activist; organized Hands Across America in 1986
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Author, Enviromental activist
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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
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African activist. Nobel Peace Prize (2004)
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Irish-American activist against crime and violence and author of his memoir, All Souls: A Family Story From Southie. He helped to start Boston's gun-buyback program, and founded the South Boston Vigil group
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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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One out of 4 nobel Peace prize winners 2015 and from Tunis
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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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Supreme Court: 'Rosa Parks of the Fourth Amendment'. Defied the police search without a warrant in the case Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
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Whistleblower who realized Bernie Madoff's system couldn't have worked as claimed after he analyzed the reports about the financial gains Madoff obtained for his clients
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Author of the book 'The Training and Experience of a Quaker Relief Worker'. Worked as a relief worker in post-war Germany during the aftermath of WW2. Born: 1920. Lives in West Hagley, Worcestershire, England. Now aged 96
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South African activist. Mother of former South African President Thabo Mbeki
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One of the original four who took part in the Woolworth sit-ins
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Activist/Founder of Earth Day. Born: 03/22/1915
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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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African-American author of Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter which describes her return to VA to learn her family history, as well as stories of her grandfather, CSA General John R. Jones
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Tuskegee Airmen
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'Tuskegee Airmen' (both Maintenance Chief & Pilot)
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Centenarian and community volunteer (b. 1909) who became known for her joyous dancing as a then-106 year old with the Obamas during a White House meeting
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Tuskegee Airmen & 761st Tank Battalion Member
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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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Former Skinhead, now anti-racism activist
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Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1992
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One of the founders of, 'The American Conservative Union.'
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former NAACP president
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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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Internationally acclaimed author
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New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. Creator of the web series Kid President & can regularly be seen in Joanna Gaines's The Magnolia Journal. Popular guest on television (including The Today Show, The View, etc) & radio
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Co-founder, of the Brown Berets
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1051st Quartermaster Company, provided food & clothing to Tuskegee Airmen. Recieved Gold Medal from President Bush with Tuskegee Airmen. Chaplin to Tuskegee Airmen East Coast Chapter. 'Bodyguard to Martin Luther King from Selma Alabama to Montgomery'
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Psychologist for the TV series 'Hoarders'
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Tuskegee Airmen 'Crew Chief' 'Staff Sergeant'/302nd FS, 99th FS & 332nd FG/Italy 1943-1945
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French philosopher and sociologist of the theory of information who has been recognized for his work on complexity and 'complex thought' (pensée complexe)
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Tuskegee Airmen
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One out of 4 who won nobel Peace price 2015 and he is from Tunis
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Author of OMG That's Me!: Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and More. Mental health advocate and stand-up comic. Former businessman and politician
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German-based Yazidi-Iraqi human rights activist and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. She was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State for three months. She is the first Iraqi to be awarded the Nobel Prize
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Writer and award winning journalist. Co-wrote WE : A Manifesto For Women Everywhere with Gillian Anderson. Co-founded the campaign group Compassion in Politics. Contested several elections as a candidate for the Green Party
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Member of the WW2 761st Negro 'Black Panthers' Tank Battalion that worked with General George Patton. Recieved Silver Star & Purple Heart! Featured in book 'Brothers in Arms'!
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American economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is, together with Paul Romer, one of the laureates of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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Documentary filmmaker, motivational speaker, and peace activist
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Michael O'brien (5)Streaker in famous 1974 photograph. Currently a businessman in Australia
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Journalist, author, and media consultant. Media columnist for Business of Fashion, and reg contributor to The Cut, Refinery29, Vulture, and other publications. Former editor of Cosmopolitan.com. Named 1 of Forbes ?30 Under 30' in 2015
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American activist, born Nathanial Burns in 1944. Joined Malcolm X's OAAU in 1965, then the Black Panthers, and later the Black Liberation Army. One of the 'Panther 21' accused by the feds of various violent acts. Caught in 1981, imprisoned until 2014
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Hiroshima survivor, born in 1931 in Canada, moved to Japan when he was nine. Survived Hiroshima at 14, and then moved back to Canada
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German Unesco Charity-Lady
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Whistleblower
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Unitarian Minister who was attacked with Rev. James Reeb in 1965 during the Selma March campaign. Reeb died and became a martyr to the cause
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American (1915-2008), served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade. Had joined the Communist party in the 1930s, later hassled by the FBI and HUAC. Left the party when he saw Stalin's actions. Worked also in the civil rights movement
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Author, speaker, associate professor of medicine at NYU?s School of Medicine. He was an advisor to President Ford?s White House physician and assisted First Lady Nancy Reagan with the Chemical People Project
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Whistleblower
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Cousin to Emmett Till
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Engineer with Bechtel Corp. blows the whistle on the cleanup of a nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island, the worst nuclear power plant accident in American history
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Non-fiction author and artificial intelligence researcher. Creator of the MTV documentary series The Buried Life and co-author of the book 'What Do You Want To Do Before You Die?', which became a No. 1 New York Times Best Seller
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Canadian lawyer, politician, and university chancellor
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Jamaican centenarian, born 1916. Saw Marcus Garvey in 1928; one of the last living 'Garveyite' followers. In 2023, became the oldest living Jamaican, and the longest living Jamaican man ever
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Tuskegee Airmen
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American poet, essayist and critic. Her writing focuses on political & social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abortion, racism, welfare reform, feminism, & poverty. She writes the 'Subject to Debate' column for The Nation
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American environmental conservationist, mariner, writer and educator. He is the founder of Living Lands & Waters
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Played by Susan Sarandon in the film 'Dead man walking'
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Dutch woman who saved the lives of many Jews during the Holocaust
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American political scientist. Most famous (& controversial) work, Bowling Alone, argues that the US has undergone an unprecedented collapse in civic, social & political life (social capital) since the 1960s w/ serious negative consequences
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June 15, 1919 - January 23, 2011 Texas lawyer for more than fifty years. She was the first female prosecutor in Dallas County, Texas. She spearheaded a coalition to establish the Marital Property Act of 1967, and the Texas Family Code
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Civil Rights Activist (1889-1979). Founder of Pullman Car Porter union, 1925. Led push to have FDR and Truman end military discrimination and segregation. Official head of the 1963 March on Washington. Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1964
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Human rights activist and advocate of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in America
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American historian of education and educational policy analyst. Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. In 2013, she joined forces with writer and former teacher, Anthony Cody, to create the The Network for Public Education
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Co - founder of the music group The Dramatics. He witnessed the events at the Algiers Motel in 1967 and was harassed and beaten brutally by the police. The movie Detroit was based on these events
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Civil rights activist, educator (born 1929). One of the 'Courageous Eight' who helped organize the Selma Marches in 1965, and the man who extended an invitation to Martin Luther King to join them
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Young schoolgirl who was at the 1963 Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed 5 others
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American writer and historian. Won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for non-fiction in 2006 and has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She won a 2012 Whiting Award
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Scientist, founder 'Community of Sant'Egidio'
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Civil Rights activist, born 1922. led the Cambridge Movement. One of the few women honored at the 1963 March on Washington, tho the mike was taken from her as she started to speak, due to efforts to keep women in the background at the time
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Civil Rights activist, born 1943. Worked with SNCC, the Selma march, and the Black Panthers. In Mississippi after James Meredith was shot, he coined the term 'Black Power!' which his friend Stokely Carmichael then helped popularized
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Sally Ride's mom and advocate for death row inmates to be exonerated
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Veteran, born 1943, of the 101st Airborne, 327th Division that was called into service by President Eisenhower to protect the Little Rock Nine students integrating the high school in 1957
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Author, 'A Game of their Own-Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball', college professor
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Author/illustrator, dancer/choreographer, rapper, environmentalist, teaching artist. Themes range from anti-bullying to understanding children with autism to environmental awareness
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American economist, a pioneer of endogenous growth theory, and a co-recipient with William D. Nordhaus of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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First Lady - Late Wife of FDR
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1950s Army Veteran and gay husband of Hubert Spires. He helped fight for a honorable discharge for Spires and they succeeded in 2017 when Spires got a honorable discharge from the US Military after over 60 years
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Tuskegee Airmen/332nd FG/302nd FS
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Founder, and owner of The Royal Treatment Veterinary Center. Internationally-renowned pioneer in complementary medicine and physical rehabilitation.Author and advocate of common sense and cutting-edge approaches to optimal animal health
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One of the 'Chicago7' war protesters from 1968
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Tuskegee Airmen 99th Pursuit Squadron
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Pen-name of Ramona Lofton, an author and performance poet. Her 1st novel, Push was adapted into the film Precious. She continuously sheds light on women who have been marginalized by sexual abuse, poverty, and their blackness
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Tuskegee Airmen
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British environmentalist rowing solo across Pacific. Already has rowed Atlantic Ocean
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Activist provided information that led to exposure of Catholic Church Coverup which became the basis for the film Spotlight. Played by Neal Huff in the film
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1960's free speech movement, Berkley
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Founder of the 'Deutschen Krebshilfe'. Wife of German Ex-President Walter Scheel. Very honoured german doctor. Died young at age 54 on cancer
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Czech-born Auschwitz survivor (1929-2023). Lost her parents and 5 siblings during the Holocaust. Married another Holocaust survivor and settled in America
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50-year journalism career. Broadcast analyst and author of 40 baseball books, Won awards for writing, editing, graphic design, and public service., Founder of NATJA. Co-host/executive producer of the weekly TRAVEL ITCH RADIO show
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Author of Silent Impact Influence Through Purpose, Persistence and Passion,' award-winning sports broadcaster, community leader and popular keynote speaker. Joined KSTP-TV in 1985 and has won 18 Emmys from the National Television Academy
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German social activist, author
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One of the Creators of the Original 1978 Rainbow Flag (LGBTQ)
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Female WWII veteran, WASP pilot (1917-2017). One of the 'Lucky Thirteen' WASP pilots to train and fly the B-17 'Flying Fortresses'
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Lawyer & President & CEO of Consumer Technology Association. Author of The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream. Inducted into the Academy of Digital TV Pioneers. Received award as most influential in advancing HDTV
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American attorney, sports agent, author, negotiator, educator, speaker, and civic leader. Founded Shapiro Advisors, the Shapiro Negotiations Institute and Shapiro Sher. Appeared on GMA, CNBC, Larry King, NPR, etc. Hosted a weekly TV show
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Israeli reporter and writer. Was a senior correspondent at the left-of-center Israeli newspaper Haaretz before he resigned when a pattern of sexual misconduct came to public attention. Drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1975
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US Army Deserter applied for asylum in Germany
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American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20. Received a 1994 George Foster Peabody Award for the 'Hunger Inside' a 20/20 documentary about extreme anorexia
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Founder Of The Special Olympics, Sister To President John F. Kennedy
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Writer/Actvist
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Harold Joseph Singer (born October 8, 1919), also known as Hal 'Cornbread' Singer, is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist. Lives in France
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Author, speaker and American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She gained national attention at the age of 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. Founded Elizabeth Smart Foundation
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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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US Army vet, born 1925. 'Undesirable' discharge for being gay, 1948. Hid the anguish from his family, until he married his partner of decades in 2009 and fought years for an honorable discharge, which came at the age of 91 in 2017
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Tuskegee Airmen
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The last surviving woman to have flown on the Hindenburg, born in 1925. Her flight was in Sept. 1936, her mother named it's 1,000th passenger. She grew up to be one of South Carolina's leading environmentalists
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One of the founders of, 'American Conservative Union,' right wing group
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Physician, Politician. 2016 Green Party Canidate for president
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Paul Stephenson (5)Born: 1937. Activist and long-time campaigner for civil rights for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol, England. His campaigns were instrumental in paving the way for the first Race Relations Act, in 1965. He lives in the UK
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Lawyer, Libertarian political activist. Patron of the Stonewall Inn, participant in the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
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President and CEO Planned Parenthood, Minnesota
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1950s black student protester at Robert Russo Moton High School, born 1931. Led to one of the five cases part of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Career as a teacher and principal
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Michael Sullivan (4)Detective/Creator of SAFEKIDS
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American comedian, Paralympian, motivational speaker and author. He lost his left leg to Ewing's sarcoma at age nine and later became a Paralympic ski racer. Chosen as 1 of CNN's 2007 Heroes, in recognition of his work with amputees
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Politician, Comedian, and Presidential Canidate
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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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Author - The Environmentalist Entrepreneur
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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
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Holocaust Survivor portrayed in film 'Memoirs of Holocaust' 'Graphic Artist'
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Humanitarian
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Von Moltke was a member of the the Kreisau Circle, an anti-Nazi resistance group co-founded by her husband Helmuth, who was executed for treason in 1945. Born: 03/29/1911
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George Walker (3)One of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, who's escapades were chronicled in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
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American journalist, born 1936. Reporter who covered the Selma civil rights marches, including 'Bloody Sunday' in 1965 for the Selma Times-Journal. Decades later served as the president of the Selma Chamber of Commerce
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One of the founders of Green Peace, Captain of the Sea Shepard on tv reality show 'Whale Wars', animal activist for whales, seals, turtles, etc
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Author and American abortion rights activist who was the first African American and the youngest president ever elected of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the first woman since Margaret Sanger to hold the position
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Ruby Ridge
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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New Zealand based artist, author and social media giant. Her work has been recognised by many mainstream celebrities such as Ed Sheeran, Tyra Banks, etc. She is a mental health advocate and battles depression and anxiety
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One of the famous 'Chicago 7' war protesters, 1968
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Founder, 'Democracy 21.' US watchdog group
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American writer, comedian and activist. Author of the essay collection Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman & a contributing opinion writer for The NYT. Was an executive producer/writer for the show, Shrill, the Hulu adaptation of her memoir
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Hiroshima survivor. 13 years old, working in a factory to support the war effort when the bomb hit. Her widowed mother died in the blast and her grandparents died of radiation sickness weeks later. She became sick but recovered and later married an Americ
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Mark Whitacre is an Ivy League Ph. D. and the highest - ranked executive of any Fortune 500 company to become a whistleblower in US history, and is responsible for uncovering the ADM price - fixing scandal in the early 1990's
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Whistleblower
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Tuskegee Airmen (Would have to be 83 years old or older if lied about age & entered at age 16 to become an Airmen)
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Leader of the, 'American Family Association,' and activist
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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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Peace activist, winner of the Peace Nobel Prize 1976
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Charles Williams (2) Tuskegee Airmen
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Tuskegee Airmen, In 1948, Williams was recalled to military service during the Berlin Airlift. President Harry Truman integrated military service in 1949 & Eldridge Williams departed for his first integrated assignment on the island of Okinawa
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Diane Wilson (2)Environmental activist/fisherwoman from Seadrift, Texas, won Goldman Environmental Prize 2023. Goldman Environmental Prize is a award that honors grassroots environmental activists from around the world for their work to protect the planet
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Woman whose lawsuit, United States v. Windsor, caused the US Supreme Court to find Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to be unconstitutional, thereby granting federal benefits to legally married gay couples; lesbian activist
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US Army WWII era vet, born 1927. Army officer school in 1944, became Paymaster for the Tuskegee Airmen in 1946. Became a Boston lawyer and social activist. Appointed a Brig. General in 2022 by Massachusetts Governor
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Civil Rights activist... 1960's
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German Lesbian Activist
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Uday Hussein's Body Double; Basis of movie 'The Devil's Double' based off his Book
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Pakistani school pupil and education activist, shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in 2012. Also the author of I am Malala
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Nobel Peace Prize 2006
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(Born 1939) Civil Rights Activist, US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (2009-2013), Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
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The real life daughter of the Zoo Keepers Wife. The movie is based on her family
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A centenarian community/political activist in Damascus, Maryland and assisted with getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed
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One of two last surviving members of the White Rose movement in Nazi Germany during WW2. Lived in Stuttgart, Germany as of 2010
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Son and grandson of Klansmen who joined ranks with the black students who were sitting-in, marching, fighting, and sometimes dying to challenge the Southern 'way of life' he had been raised on but rejected. Former field secretary of SNCC
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Founder of Moms for Liberty
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American lawyer, author, and television talk-show host of the PBS syndicated program Conversations with Jim Zirin. He also a member of the Consolidated Corporate Fund Leadership Committee of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg´s wife
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Civil Rights Activist, 1961 Freedom Rider famously beaten 5/20/61 off a bus in Montgomery, Al