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Chihenne Chiricahua Apache, Lozen: A Shield to her People

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https://www.beyouteous.com - Lozen was a skilled warrior, shaman of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache born around 1840. She excelled in horseback riding, shooting, roping, and horse thievery. She along with Dahteste, Geronimo, and the rest of the Apache natives surrendered to American troops and were train bound to Fort Pickens in Florida. She's said to be buried in Alabama in an unmarked grave.

Sarah Livingston Jay: Wife of American Founding Father John Jay

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https://www.beyouteous.com - Sarah Livingston Jay, wife of American Founding Father John Jay, was considered one of the first socialites in the United States. On a diplomatic mission in France, she’s said to have been impressed by Marie Antoinette.

John Jay: Founding Father & First Chief Justice of the United States

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https://www.linkedin.com - The youngest son of Peter Jay and Mary van Courtlandt, John Jay was born in New York on December 12, 1745. One of the framers of the Constitution, Jay served as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

Dolley Madison: Wife of American Founding Father James Madison

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https://www.beyouteous.com - Dolley Madison is often credited with saving the portrait of George Washington when the British attacked the Capitol in 1814 when 4,000 British troops began landing in Maryland during the War of 1812.

James Madison: First Amendment and Freedom of Speech

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https://www.linkedin.com - An enthusiastic farmer, James Madison served two terms as the fourth president of the United States. Among other things, he helped George Washington write his inaugural speech, as well as choose the first presidential cabinet.

Martha Jefferson: Wife of American Founding Thomas Jefferson

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Of the first four First Ladies, the least is known about Martha Jefferson, musician and wife of the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Dying of ill health during the Revolutionary War, she did not live to see her husband become President.

Thomas Jefferson: President, Secretary of State, Gardener & Scientist

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https://www.linkedin.com - Thomas Jefferson, an avid gardener, served two terms as the 3rd president, recorded the weather. He retired to Monticello, the mountaintown home shared with wife Martha. There he died on July 4, 1826 on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, of which he’s considered the primary author.

Malcolm X: A Tree Without Roots is Dead

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https://www.linkedin.com - 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.

Nelson Mandela: First Black South African President

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https://www.linkedin.com - 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.”

Florence Kelley: Advocate for Working Women & Children

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https://www.beyouteous.com - 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.

Frederick Douglass: Contributions to the Abolitionist Movement

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https://www.linkedin.com - 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.

Mohandas Ghandi: Pioneer of Mass Nonviolent Civil Disobedience

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https://www.linkedin.com - 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.

Martin Luther King: The Walk Towards Freedom & Equal Rights

Posted By eBrandMe 1048 days ago on History

https://www.linkedin.com - 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.

Harriet Tubman: Humanitarian and Civil Rights Activist

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https://www.beyouteous.com - 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.