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Key Activities
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Lifespan
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Answer
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Anti-Monopoly Reform, Cleveland Mayor
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1854-1911
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Tom Johnson
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Wisconsin Governor & Senator
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1855-1925
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Robert La Follette, Sr.
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Organized American Railway Union
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1855-1926
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Eugene Debs
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Supreme Court Justice
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1856-1941
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Louis Brandeis
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Scopes trial
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1857-1938
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Clarence Darrow
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President
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1858-1919
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Fought Child Labor
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1859-1932
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Florence Kelley
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Pragmatist Philosopher and Educator
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1859-1952
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John Dewey
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First Socialist in Congress
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1860-1929
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Victor Berger
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"The Yellow Wallpaper"
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1860-1935
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Hull House
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1860-1935
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Jane Addams
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"The Shame of the Cities"
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1866-1936
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Lincoln Steffens
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Governor of California (1911-1917)
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1866-1945
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Hiram Johnson
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"The Souls of Black Folk"
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1868-1963
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W. E. B. DuBois
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Industrial Workers of the World
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1869-1928
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William "Big Bill" Haywood
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Physician, occupational health
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1869-1970
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Alice Hamilton
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Anarchist and feminist
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1869-1940
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Emma Goldman
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Sociologist and photographer
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1874-1940
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Lewis Hine
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New York Senator (1927-1949)
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1877-1953
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Robert F. Wagner
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"The Jungle"
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1878-1968
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Upton Sinclair
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Physicist
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1879-1955
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Albert Einstein
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Birth Control
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1879-1966
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Margaret Sanger
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United Mine Workers of America
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1880-1969
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John L. Lewis
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Educator and disability rights activist
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1880-1968
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Helen Keller
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Secretary of Labor
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1880-1965
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Frances Perkins
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President
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1882-1945
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Labor organizer
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1882-1972
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Rose Schneiderman
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NYC Mayor
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1882-1947
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Fiorello La Guardia
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ACLU
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1884-1981
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Roger Baldwin
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First Lady
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1884-1962
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Minister and presidential candidate
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1884-1968
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Norman Thomas
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Clergyman and pacifist activist
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1885-1967
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A.J. Muste
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Quaker and suffragist
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1885-1977
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Alice Stokes Paul
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Labor organizer
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1887-1946
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Sidney Hillman
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Vice President
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1888-1965
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Henry Wallace
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Labor unionist and civil rights
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1889-1979
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Asa Philip Randolph
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Chief Supreme Court Justice
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1891-1974
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Earl Warren
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Minnesota governor
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1891-1936
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Floyd Olson
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Catholic Worker
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1897-1980
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Dorothy Day
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Athlete, singer, actor, and activist
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1898-1976
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Paul Robeson
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Supreme Court Justice
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1898-1980
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William O. Douglas
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Labor activist
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1901-1990
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Harry Bridges
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Harlem Renaissance
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1902-1967
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Langston Hughes
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New York congressperson
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1902-1954
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Vito Marcantonio
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Civil rights
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1903-1999
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Virginia F. Durr
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Civil rights
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1903-1986
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Ella Baker
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"Green Eggs and Ham"
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1904-1991
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Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
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Educator and socialist
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1905-1990
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Myles Horton
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"Factories in the Field"
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1905-1980
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Carey McWilliams
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Supreme Court Justice
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1906-1997
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William J. Brennan
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Rabbi and Civil Rights activist
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1907-1972
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Abraham Heschel
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"Silent Spring"
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1907-1964
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Rachel Carson
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United Automobile Workers
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1907-1970
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Walter Reuther
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Investigative journalist
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1907-1989
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I. F. Stone
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Supreme Court Justice
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1908-1993
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Thurgood Marshall
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President
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1908-1973
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Economist
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1908-2006
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Rules for Radicals"
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1909-1972
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Saul Alinsky
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Civil Rights
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1912-1987
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Bayard Rustin
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1950s Gay Liberation Pioneer
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1912-2002
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Harry Hay
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Oral historian
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1912-2008
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Studs Terkel
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Environmentalist
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1912-2000
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David Brower
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"This Land is Your Land"
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1912-1967
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Woody Guthrie
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"Death of a Salesman"
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1915-2005
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Arthur Miller
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Urbanist
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1916-2006
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Jane Jacobs
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"The Power Elite"
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1916-1962
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C. Wright Mills
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Biologist and ecologist
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1917-
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Barry Commoner
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Civil rights
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1917-1977
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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Integrated baseball
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1919-1972
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Jackie Robinson
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Folk singer
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1919-
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Pete Seeger
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Labor leader & AFSCME president
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1919-1981
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Jerry Wurf
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Feminist, lawyer, and congressperson
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1920-1998
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Bella Abzug
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"The Feminine Mystique"
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1921-2006
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Betty Friedan
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"A People's History of the United States"
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1922-2010
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Howard Zinn
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Minister and activist
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1924-2006
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William Sloane Coffin
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"By Any Means Necessary"
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1925-1965
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Malcolm X
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Grape boycott
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1927-1993
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Cesar Chavez
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"The Other America"
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1928-1989
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Michael Harrington
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Activist and educator
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1928-
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James Lawson
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Linguist and social critic
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1928-
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Noam Chomsky
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"I Have a Dream"
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1929-1968
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Martin Luther King
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"Dump Johnson"
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1929-1980
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Allard Lowenstein
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Mayor of Castro Street
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1930-1978
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Harvey Milk
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Massachusetts senator
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1932-2009
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Ted Kennedy
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Consumer Advocate
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1934-
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Ralph Nader
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Feminist
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1934-
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Gloria Steinem
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Journalist
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1934-
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Bill Moyers
|
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Educator and SNCC leader
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1935-
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Bob Moses
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"Port Huron Statement"
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1939-
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Tom Hayden
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Edmund Pettis Bridge
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1940-
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John Lewis
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"Diamonds and Rust"
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1941-
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Joan Baez
|
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"Blowin' in the Wind"
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1941-
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Bob Dylan
|
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"Nickeled and Dimed"
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1941-
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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Rainbow Coalition
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1941-
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Jesse Jackson
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Boxing
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1942-`
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Muhammad Ali
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Tennis
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1943-
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Billie Jean King
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Minnesota Senator
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1944-2002
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Paul Wellstone
|
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"Born in the USA"
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1949-
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Bruce Springsteen
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"Fahrenheit 911"
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1954-
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Michael Moore
|
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"Angels in America"
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1956-
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Tony Kushner
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