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social reformer, civil rights activist, and scholar and who drafted Constitution of India, campaigned for Indian independence, fought for the women's rights, fought discrimination and inequality among the people. Walter Francis White: 1895 1955 United States: NAACP executive secretary Maria L. de Hernández: 1896 1986 United States
Amy Goodman (born 1957) – American journalist, host of Democracy Now! Paul Goodman (1911–1972) – American writer, psychotherapist, social critic, anarchist philosopher and public intellectual; Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) – Russian anti-nuclear activist during and after Soviet presidency.
A democracy is a political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, organization, or state, in which members have a share of power. [2] Modern democracies are characterized by two capabilities of their citizens that differentiate them fundamentally from earlier forms of government: to intervene in society and have their sovereign (e.g., their representatives) held ...
Rosa Parks was an Alabama native and a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activist who fought for civil rights in the United States. What did Rosa Parks accomplish?
Holley spent two decades as a Times foreign correspondent, covering pro-democracy street protests in nearly a dozen other countries before going into teaching. He died Aug. 4 in Nagano, Japan, at ...
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. — Article 11. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. — Article 12. [259]
Former anti-apartheid student protest leader Seth Mazibuko is among activists and educators who believe a crisis is hollowing out the country’s education system.
Free Blacks in the New England Colonies and Middle Colonies in the North as well as Southern Colonies fought on both sides of the War, but the majority fought for the Patriots. Gary Nash reports that there were about 9,000 Black veteran Patriots, counting the Continental Army and Navy, state militia units, privateers, wagoneers in the Army ...