SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
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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1:12
William Ayers Campbell
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Marian Anderson
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1:14
Thurgood Marshall
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1:07
Earl Warren 1891–1974
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1:19
James Farmer
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1:09
Betty Friedan 1921–2006
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1:06
Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921–2009
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1:25
The Return to Aztlan Cesar Chavez 1927–1993
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1:25
Albert Einstein 1879–1955
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0:53
Felipe Luciano
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1:09
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968
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0:54
Malcolm X
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1:14
Kate Millett 1934–2017
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1:04
Rosa Parks 1913–2005
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1:00
Asa Philip Randolph 1889-1979
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1:25
Minoru Yasui
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1:32
Gwendolyn E. Brooks
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0:54
Marian Anderson 1897–1993
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962
Mary McLeod Bethune 1875–1955
Paul Robeson 1898–1976
Dustin Lance Black, born 1974
Congressman John Lewis 1940–2020
Antonia Pantoja 1922–2002
John Africa, 1931 - 1985
Dolores Huerta born 1930