Hubert Harrison
Profile. By Jeffrey B. Perry.
Overview of the life and work scholar and activist Hubert Harrison.
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Overview of the life and work scholar and activist Hubert Harrison.
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
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Mother Jones (1830–1930) was a labor leader and organizer.
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Pauli Murray: Fighting Jane Crow
Article. By Paula Giddings, The Nation, May 23, 1987.
Review of Pauli Murray's autobiography, Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage.
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Review of Pauli Murray's autobiography, Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage.
Ella Josephine Baker
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Brief biography of Ella Josephine Baker, 1903–1986, activist and civil rights organizer.
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Chief Hinmton Yalaktit Joseph
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Chief Joseph Hinmton Yalaktit (1840 -1904), a Nez Percé Indian chief in what is now northeastern Oregon.
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Feb. 2, 1512: Taíno Leader Hatuey Executed in Cuba
Hatuey was a freedom fighter in the early 1500s who mobilized Caribbean islanders against invasion, theft, and murder by European conquistadors.
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Lucy Gonzales Parsons
Profile. By William Loren Katz.
Lucy Gonzales Parsons (c. 1853 – March 7, 1942) was a labor organizer and orator.
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Lucy Gonzales Parsons (c. 1853 – March 7, 1942) was a labor organizer and orator.
Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger (1919-2014) was a folk singer, songwriter, and activist.
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Liuzzo, Viola
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Viola Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965), Civil Rights activist, was murdered in 1965 by the KKK after the Selma to Montgomery March.
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Diane Wilson
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Diane Wilson (born 1948) is a shrimp fisher, environmentalist, and activist.
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