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Losing candidate in the 1936 presidential election; he lost by the greatest margin in history
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Alf London
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Billionaire who was the only individual paying 79% income tax (the top tax bracket) under the New Deal
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John D. Rockefeller
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Leader of the Black Cabinet, a group advising the president about issues regarding black people in the late 1930s
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Popular musician in the 1930s (not jazz)
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Author who wrote about life in the Great Depression
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Head of the Works Progress Administration who said in response to criticism about wasting taxpayers' money "hell, they've got to eat just like the rest of us!"
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Harry Hopkins
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German dictator who the US fought against in the Second World War
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Adolf Hitler
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Vice-president who became president in April 1945 when the previous one died; he increased the minimum wage from 40 cents per hour to 75 cents per hour as part of the 'Fair Deal'
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Harry S. Truman
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Republican president elected in 1952 who brought business people into the government to maintain the economy
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Influential figure in the 1950s 'teenage rebellion'
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Influential Rock 'n' Roll singer
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Elvis Presley
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Member of the US government accused of spying for the Soviet Union
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Alger Hiss
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Couple executed in 1953 for passing secrets regarding the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union (they may not actually have been guilty)
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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Senator who claimed to have a list of 200 communist party members, who was the namesake of the 'Witch Hunts' in the Second Red Scare
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Joseph McCarthy
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Mixed-race politician who successfully campaigned to allow African-American journalists into the press rooms at Congress and to allow African-American students into the US Naval Academy in the 1940s
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Adam Clayton Powell
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African-American baseball player who left the Negro National League and joined a previously all-white club in 1947
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Jackie Robinson
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Father of a black girl who took the Board of Education of Topeka to court for segregating schools by race in 1954
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Oliver Brown
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Daughter of the above who had to walk two miles to go to school even though there was a school for white students half a mile away
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Linda Brown
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Black girl who was photographed trying to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas along with eight other black students in 1957
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Elizabeth Eckford
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Governor of Arkansas who sent soldiers to prevent these students from entering, though they were eventually forced to leave by the Federal government
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Orville Faubus
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African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, triggering the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955
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Rosa Parks
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Baptist preacher who led many civil rights protests including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington, believed in non-violent protest and delivered the 'I have a dream' speech
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Man who assassinated the above in 1968
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James Earl Ray
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Police chief in Birmingham, Alabama who attacked civil rights protestors on a non-violent march, leading to a greater level of support for the Civil Rights Movement
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Eugene 'Bull' Connor
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US President known for supporting the Civil Rights Movement, describing a 'New Frontier' and being assassinated in 1963
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John F. Kennedy
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Former vice-president who became president after the assassination of the above; he was known for promising a 'Great Society', manipulating his opponents and passing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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White civil rights campaigner who was murdered by the KKK in 1965
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Viola Liuzzo
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Black American sprinter who wore black gloves and no shoes to protest against poverty in the African-American community and support the Black Power movement
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Former member of the Nation of Islam who was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam after becoming less extreme in his views
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Malcolm X
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African-American student who won a place at Mississippi University but was being persecuted by racists, who the president sent soldiers to protect
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James Meredith
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Author of the book 'The Feminine Mystique', which argued that women were not being given enough opportunities to pursue a career
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Betty Friedan
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Leader of the STOP ERA campaign, which successfully opposed the Equal Rights Amendment on the grounds that it would lead to women in combat, abortion, unisex bathrooms and homosexual marriage
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Phyllis Schlafly
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21-year-old woman who won the right to have an abortion in 1973 after a ruling by the Supreme Court
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Jane Roe / Norma McCorvey
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Boxing competitors - Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney
Jazz musicians - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman
Film performers - Charlie Chaplain, Rudolf Valentino, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Gang leaders - Al Capone, 'Lucky' Luciano, 'Machine Gun' Kelly, Vito 'Chicken Head' Gurino, Johnny Torio, 'Bugs' Moran
Non-jazz musicians - Glenn Miller, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby
Depression authors - Erskine Caldwell, John Steinbeck, James T. Farrell
Teenage rebels - James Dean, Marlon Brando
Protesting sprinters - Tommie Smith, John Carlos