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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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US Politician (1827-1887). California Gold Rush '49er,' House 1861-63 and 1869-73, Senate 1873-79. Authored, introduced bill that would become the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote
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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 Protestant theologian and civil rights activist
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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 -
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
