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A major voice for Black Nationalism in the 1960s, Malcolm X opposed the nonviolent, patient approach of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. but would later begin to not only direct his work towards African Americans but to people of all races and ethnicities.
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South African anti-apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela, was the country’s first black president.
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
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Florence Kelley, the first woman factory inspector in the United States, was born September 12, 1859 in Philadelphia, PA to William Kelley and Caroline Bonsall. She fought for government regulation to protect working women and children.
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The rebellion took place on August 21, 1831, and is said to have expedited the coming of the Civil War.
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Born enslaved in Tuckahoe, Maryland, Frederick Douglass would become one of the foremost African American leaders of the nineteenth century. He learned to read as a house slave for Sophia and Hugh Auld and became strongly involved in the underground railroad.
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Born in Porbandar, India on October 2, 1869, Mohandas Ghandi, was the political and spiritual leader who pioneered and practiced the principle of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass nonviolent civil disobedience.
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Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929, the middle child born in their grandfather William’s house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta. There were a few black-owned businesses; a bank, two insurance companies, a drugstore that grew into a chain of five drugstores throughout the city. He became the second African American to have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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What did I learn while researching Chiune Sugihara's life? I learned that in school, the students were taught a code that had three laws: 1) Don’t be a burden to others; 2) Take care of others; 3) Do not expect rewards for your goodness. I learned that it’s always possible to stand up for what you think is right… but what made Hitler think that he was in his actions?
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Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross around 1820 in Bucktown, Maryland. She would escape to Pennsylvanian in 1849 and return to Maryland to free her family and others for the next ten years through the Underground Railroad.
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Discover more about Garrett Augustus Morgan... the African-American inventor who patented the first traffic signal in the United States and a breathing device to protect firefighters, a precursor to the modern gas mask.
