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women's rights pioneer, writer, beheaded during French Revolution Ottobah Cugoano: 1757 1791 United Kingdom Ghana: captured from West Africa, he became a member of the Sons of Africa and argued against slavery on Christian and philosophical grounds William Wilberforce: 1759 1833 United Kingdom: leader of the British abolition movement
Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961 ...
John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association.
Two Latinos, Raúl Yzaguirre and Julieta García will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their pioneering work in civil rights and higher education. Two Latino pioneers, in civil rights ...
Peer Ali Khan (1812 – July 7, 1857) was an Indian revolutionary and rebel, who participated in the Indian independence movement. [2] He was given capital punishment for participating in the freedom struggle of 1857.
The Progressive Friends, also known as the Congregational Friends and the Friends of Human Progress, was a loose-knit group of dissidents who left the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the mid-nineteenth century. The separation was caused by the determination of some Quakers to participate in the social reform movements of ...
From the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, the civil rights movement organized to obtain legalized racial equality and justice in the United States. Rooted in the aftermath of slavery and segregation, the movement sought to highlight, discuss, and dismantle legalized discrimination based on race by, amongst other things, studying and applying the words of the Sermon on the Mount, the documents of ...
A Short History of Progress is a non-fiction book and lecture series by Ronald Wright about societal collapse.The lectures were delivered as a series of five speeches, each taking place in different cities across Canada as part of the 2004 Massey Lectures which were broadcast on the CBC Radio program, Ideas.