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Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a prominent German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women’s rights. She played a...
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Maria Moreno (1920-1989) was a farmworker and labor union activist during the Farmworkers’ Movement of the 1960s. She is...
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