South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, statesman and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
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Prominent Windrush campaigner
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Civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in September 1962
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Human rights activist
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African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher and author
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Key organiser in the Black Women's Movement in the United Kingdom
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On 20th April 1740, she persuaded the British to sign a peace treaty after they suffered several defeats and losses by the Windward Maroons
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Writer and Abolitionist
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Started Negro History Week. In 1976 it was expanded to Black History Month
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Issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “that all persons held as slaves,” within the rebellious states, “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
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