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Aleksey Navalny
Aleksey Navalny

He was a Russian lawyer, anti-corruption activist, and politician who achieved international recognition as one of the most prominent domestic critics of Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin.

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (NPG.2009.36)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett

This American journalist led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.

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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Born to parents James McCauley, a skilled stonemason
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Sojourner Truth
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Mia Malkova

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Wheat Field with Cypresses, oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, 1889; in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 73 x 93.4 cm.
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