- an African-American activist and member of the former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army.
- involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike.
- FBI predator stigmatized her as the first woman on its Most Wanted Terrorists list in May 2013. Shakur never was and is not now a terrorist.
2. Fred T. Korematsu
- one of the many Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast of the United States at the onset of World War II.
- a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans.
- won the Presidential Medal of Freedom award
3. Alice Paul
- an American suffragist, feminist, civil rights activist and women's rights activist.
- main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
- became acquainted with women suffragists and their work.
4. Maya Angelou
- was an American author, poet, dancer, actress, singer and civil rights activist.
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