• Peter Simpson (1871?–1947) was a Canadian-born Tsimshian activist for Alaska Native rights, and co-owner of the first Indian-owned business in Alaska....
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  • and 1970s Peter Simpson (footballer, born 1940), English footballer who played for Burnley and Bury Peter Simpson (Native rights activist) (c. 1871–1947)...
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  • educator and politician Peter Simpson (Native rights activist) (c. 1871–1947), Tsimshian activist for Alaska Native rights Peter Simpson (Scottish footballer)...
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  • Tsimshians under Duncan's orders, including Peter Simpson, later the prominent Alaska Native rights activist. This tragic fire led to Ridley's departure...
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  • (1917–2008) – Norwegian women's rights activist and pacifist Tank Man – Stood in front of the tank during 1989 China protest Peter Tatchell (born 1952) – Australian-born...
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    until 1948. In 1931 the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia was founded in Port Simpson as the province's first Native-run rights organization. Its four...
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    Johnnie Cochran (category O. J. Simpson murder case)
    advocate for minorities in police brutality and civil rights cases. But the controversial and dramatic Simpson trial made Cochran more widely known, generating...
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    In this way, Slavic Native Faith has been understood—at least in part—as an invented tradition, or a form of Folklorismus. Simpson has noted, speaking...
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    just physically, but culturally. Simpson and Sheridan are invested in making us see how America has screwed Native people, but to the point of rubbing...
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    Clyde Bellecourt (category Native American activists)
    Clyde Howard Bellecourt (May 8, 1936 – January 11, 2022) was a Native American civil rights organizer. His Ojibwe name is Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun, which means...
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  • illustrator, and painter. Mirta Acuña de Baravalle, 99, Argentine human rights activist, co-founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and Grandmothers of Plaza de...
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  • author and transgender rights activist Chad Griffin, LGBT rights activist, founding president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, and former president...
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    seeks to replace Native memory. Many people, both Native and non-Native, disapprove of these commemorative markers, and various activists and organizations...
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  • evangenitals.com, accessed 6 July 2012. "Is James Cromwell really an animal rights activist?" Archived 23 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine, The Food Revolution...
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    founding member, along with Emmett Grogan, Peter Berg, Judy Goldhaft, Kent Minault, Nina Blasenheim, David Simpson, Jane Lapiner, and Billy Murcott, of the...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. (category Activists for Native American rights)
    American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his...
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    Tsimshian (category Native Americans in Alaska)
    Hanaax, Ganhada, artist and traditional cedar weaver Peter Simpson, Native American rights activist Henry W. Tate, Gispakloats, oral historian, tribal headman...
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    Dick Gregory (category Activists for Native American rights)
    civil rights and animal rights as intrinsically linked, once stating, "Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals...
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  • Civil Rights. NYU press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-8147-8709-0. Literacy in America: N-Z. ABC-CLIO. 2002. p. 373. ISBN 978-1-57607-358-2. Ayto & Simpson (2010)...
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    Outstanding Television Movie at the Emmys. That same year, Washington launched Simpson Street, a production company, which has an overall deal with ABC Studios...
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    Service. Jackson was born in Chicago, to Jesse Jackson, a noted civil rights activist and Baptist minister, and Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson. His godfather...
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    indígena de México, pueblos indígenas de México), Native Mexicans (Spanish: nativos mexicanos) or Mexican Native Americans (Spanish: pueblos originarios de México...
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    gay rights is a matter of controversy. LGBTQ rights activist Richard Socarides credits Clinton as the first president to publicly champion gay rights, but...
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    November 2018. Gettleman, Jeffrey (8 November 2017). "David Kato, Gay Rights Activist, Is Killed in Uganda" – via www.nytimes.com. "Uganda anti-homosexuality...
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  • civil rights activist, wrote that racial equality is "impossible and illusory" and that racism in the US is permanent. According to Bell, civil-rights legislation...
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    rights Alice Cardona (1930–2011), activist and community organizer Dennis Flores, activist and filmmaker Tito Kayak (born 1958), political activist;...
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    Mississippi to work in slightly less dangerous conditions. In 1964, civil rights activists began the Mississippi Project and what would be called Freedom Summer...
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    Emily Deschanel (category American veganism activists)
    miniseries Devil in Ohio. Deschanel is a vegan and a supporter of animal rights causes. She has said she went vegan after watching the film Diet for a New...
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  • for Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Spider-Man 2. An alternate universe version of Homer Simpson, inspired by Spider-Man Noir, appears in The Simpsons episode...
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  • band chief among the Pekowi Shawnee. As an early advocate for Native American civil rights, he joined other chiefs in opposing the sale and trade of alcohol...
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