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(Independence). He was a Silversmith and was well known for his "Midnight Ride" screaming, "The British are coming!"
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Paul Revere warned the people of Concord that the British were coming.
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(Civil Rights). He was lonely. He was born in Maryland. He died in Washington D.C, at the age of 77. He had five childred and also helped to end slavery.
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(Women's Rights). She was an abolotionist, and speaker and president of the National American Women Suffarage Association
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Douglass consulted with President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and helped influence the Emancipation Proclamation. After President Lincoln’s death, Mrs. Lincoln sent Douglass her late husband’s walking stick.
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She helped establish the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 with Stanton, calling for the same rights to be granted to all regardless of race or sex.
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(Education). She was an African American Civil Rights leader. She started a school for African American Girls.
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(New Deal and WWII). He bacme the 32nd president of the U.S. He died in Warm Springs, GA from Polio. He helped a lot of poor people too.
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(United Nations and human rights) She was the wife of FDR, and they had six children. She became chairwoman at the while house.
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(civil rights). He became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
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(Great Society and voting rights) He became president in 1960, because JFK was killed. He would start his Great Society program to help people.
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After her husband suffered a polio attack in 1921, Eleanor stepped forward to help Franklin with his political career.
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(worker's rights) Parents didnt' have enough money, so they sold their barn. He helped farm workers receive fair pay. He started boycotts and unions to help them.
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In 1935, Bethune became a special advisor to President Roosevelt on minority affairs. That same year, she also started up her own civil rights organization, the National Council of Negro Women.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to be elected four times. He led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II.
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After working as a community and labor organizer in the 1950s, Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. This union joined with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in its first strike against grape growers in California in 1965
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In 1965, Johnson pushed a sweeping legislative agenda known as the "Great Society," which would become the most ambitious and far-reaching domestic program in the nation's history.
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Argued 32 cases in the Supreme Court.
