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Cesar Chavez

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Co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, major role in the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, known for his act of 'La Causa'

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Lucretia Mott

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Early feminist activist, social reformer, one of the women who organized the Seneca Falls Convention

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Former First Lady, instrumental in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, advocate for civil and racial equality

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Susan B. Anthony

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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

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Dolores Huerta

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Co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, labor leader and civil rights activist

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Angela Davis

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Political activist, academic scholar, involved in the civil rights movement, known for her association with the Black Panther Party

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Shirley Chisholm

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First black woman elected to the United States Congress, ran for Democratic presidential nomination

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Led the Civil Rights Movement, well-known for 'I Have a Dream' speech, Nobel Peace Prize winner

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Emmeline Pankhurst

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Leader of the British suffragette movement, helped women win the right to vote, radical and militant protest tactics

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Harvey Milk

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First openly gay elected official in California, advocated for gay rights, assassinated in 1978

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Malcolm X

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Advocated for black empowerment and human rights, criticized the mainstream Civil Rights Movement, assassinated in 1965

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Co-founder of the NAACP, civil rights activist, first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule, pioneer of nonviolent civil disobedience, Salt March

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Rosa Parks

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Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, pivotal in Montgomery Bus Boycott, 'Mother of the Freedom Movement'

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Sojourner Truth

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Abolitionist and women's rights activist, known for her speech 'Ain't I a Woman?'

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Bayard Rustin

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Adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., played a key role in organizing the March on Washington, advocate for gay rights

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Frederick Douglass

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Former slave turned leader of the abolitionist movement, famous for his oratory skills, and an advocate for women's suffrage

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Nelson Mandela

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Anti-apartheid revolutionary, first black president of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner

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Gloria Steinem

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Leader and spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, co-founder of Ms. magazine

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Aung San Suu Kyi

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Leader of the struggle for human rights and democracy in Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, faced long periods of house arrest

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