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Social Justice Figures

Can you guess these social justice figures by the description? (This is a list of the cabin names from my summer camp, and if you don't know who they are you can learn about them!)
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Last updated: January 29, 2023
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Woman who led the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Puerto-Rican baseball player who died in a plane crash.
Roberto Clemente
Former slave and abolitionist who became a preacher and the United States Marshal for the District of Colombia.
Frederick Douglas
Former slave, abolitionist and women's right activist who spoke the famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
American pacifist who was part of "The Chicago Seven"
David Dellinger
Girl who wrote a diary during the holocaust.
Anne Frank
Writer and singer of "This Land is Your Land"
Woody Guthrie
Historian who stored documents of the struggles in the Holocaust in milk jugs while in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Emanuel Ringelblum
First socialist to run for president, one time he ran for office in prison.
Eugene V Debs
Yiddish Playwright who provided material for "Fiddler on the Roof"
Sholem Aleichem
Labor activist and songwriter whose last words before execution were "Don't mourn. Organize."
Joe Hill
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Yiddish Poet with works such as "Songs from the Ghetto"
Morris Rosenfeld
Three civil rights activists who were shot by the KKK during "Freedom Summer"
Michael Schwerner, James Chaney,
and Andrew Goodman
Civil rights activist who worked in the background alongside Martin Luther King and John Lewis.
Ella Baker
Paratrooper who rescued Hungarian Jews who were going to be deported to German death camps.
Hannah Senesh
American Folk singer, helped clean up the Hudson river with his sloop.
Pete Seeger
American actor and football player who used his platform to speak out against fascism and war.
Paul Robeson
American poet who wrote "The New Colossus" which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty.
Emma Lazarus
Chilean Poet and Activist who wrote "Ode to My Socks"
Pablo Neruda
American Nurse and healthcare activist who founded the Henry Street Settlement.
Lillian Wald
Suffragist who is known as "The first Jewish feminist"
Ernestine Rose
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