• Mahatma Gandhi helped free the people of India from British rule through nonviolent resistance beginning in the early 1900's.

   

• Susan B. Anthony devoted herself to the cause of women's rights during the late 1800's.

   

• Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849 and secretly worked to help others escape.

   

• Sojourner Truth was a supporter of the antislavery and women's rights movements in the mid-1800's.

   

• Rosa Parks is known as "the mother of the civil rights movement," based on her actions in 1955.

   

• Chief Joseph, a leader of the Nez Perce tribe, wanted the same rights for his people as the white man in the mid-1800's.

   

• Cesar Chavez was a labor organizer and civil rights activist during the 1960's and 1970's.
  
  

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