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The Struggle for Justice

The history of democracy in the United States has not always been characterized by wide participation or inclusiveness. Over the past two-and-a-half centuries, the nation has transformed from thirteen states along the Eastern Seaboard governed by a white, male, land-owning elite to a vast country led by an increasingly heterogeneous population.

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Carrie Chapman Catt, 1859–1947
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George Washington Carver, c. 1864–1943
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James Weldon Johnson
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William Ayers Campbell
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Marian Anderson
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Thurgood Marshall
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Earl Warren 1891–1974
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James Farmer
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Betty Friedan 1921–2006
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921–2009
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The Return to Aztlan Cesar Chavez 1927–1993
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Albert Einstein 1879–1955
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Felipe Luciano
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Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968
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Malcolm X
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Kate Millett 1934–2017
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Rosa Parks 1913–2005
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Asa Philip Randolph 1889-1979
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Minoru Yasui
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Gwendolyn E. Brooks
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Marian Anderson 1897–1993
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Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962
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Mary McLeod Bethune 1875–1955
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Paul Robeson 1898–1976
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Dustin Lance Black, born 1974
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Congressman John Lewis 1940–2020
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Antonia Pantoja 1922–2002
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John Africa, 1931 - 1985
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Dolores Huerta born 1930
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