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Martin Luther King Jr.
Led the Civil Rights Movement, well-known for 'I Have a Dream' speech, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Rosa Parks
Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, pivotal in Montgomery Bus Boycott, 'Mother of the Freedom Movement'
Malcolm X
Advocated for black empowerment and human rights, criticized the mainstream Civil Rights Movement, assassinated in 1965
Mahatma Gandhi
Leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule, pioneer of nonviolent civil disobedience, Salt March
Nelson Mandela
Anti-apartheid revolutionary, first black president of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Susan B. Anthony
Key figure in the women's suffrage movement, co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association, the Susan B. Anthony Amendment became the 19th Amendment
Cesar Chavez
Co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, major role in the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, known for his act of 'La Causa'
Emmeline Pankhurst
Leader of the British suffragette movement, helped women win the right to vote, radical and militant protest tactics
Harvey Milk
First openly gay elected official in California, advocated for gay rights, assassinated in 1978
Frederick Douglass
Former slave turned leader of the abolitionist movement, famous for his oratory skills, and an advocate for women's suffrage
Gloria Steinem
Leader and spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, co-founder of Ms. magazine
W.E.B. Du Bois
Co-founder of the NAACP, civil rights activist, first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard
Lucretia Mott
Early feminist activist, social reformer, one of the women who organized the Seneca Falls Convention
Aung San Suu Kyi
Leader of the struggle for human rights and democracy in Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, faced long periods of house arrest
Dolores Huerta
Co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, labor leader and civil rights activist
Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady, instrumental in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, advocate for civil and racial equality
Angela Davis
Political activist, academic scholar, involved in the civil rights movement, known for her association with the Black Panther Party
Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist and women's rights activist, known for her speech 'Ain't I a Woman?'
Bayard Rustin
Adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., played a key role in organizing the March on Washington, advocate for gay rights
Shirley Chisholm
First black woman elected to the United States Congress, ran for Democratic presidential nomination
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