swap_horiz Hilda Gadea Alternatives

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Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara served as President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Rising through the army, he spearheaded a radical...

20TH Century President Africa Burkina Faso

8.9 Great

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Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was an Indian socialist revolutionary executed by the British in 1931 after the Lahore Conspiracy Case made...

India 20TH Century Independence Socialist

8.3 Great

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Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere was a Tanzanian nationalist and teacher who led Tanganyika to independence in 1961 and became Tanzania's...

20TH Century President Tanzania Socialist

8.3 Great

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Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton was an Illinois Black Panther leader who built the Rainbow Coalition in Chicago before police killed him du...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Black Panther

8.1 Great

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James Connolly

James Connolly was an Irish socialist and labor organizer who commanded the Irish Citizen Army in the 1916 Easter Rising...

20TH Century Republican Ireland Irish

7.9 Good

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Ruth First

South African anti-apartheid activist and journalist assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by South African securit...

20TH Century South African Feminist Martyr

7.9 Good

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Huey P. Newton

Huey P. Newton was a co-founder of the Black Panther Party in Oakland in 1966, helping create armed patrols and communit...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Black Panther

7.5 Good

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Bobby Seale

Bobby Seale is an American political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton in Oakland, Cal...

American 20TH Century Black Panther Socialist

7.5 Good

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Vilma Espín

Vilma Espín was a Cuban revolutionary and chemical engineer who fought in the July 26 Movement and founded the Federatio...

Cuban 20TH Century Feminist Cuba

7.3 Good

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Qiu Jin

Qiu Jin was a Chinese feminist, poet, and anti-Qing revolutionary, executed in 1907 after a failed uprising linked to he...

China 20TH Century Feminist Martyr

7.3 Good

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Nadezhda Krupskaya

Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya was the wife of Vladimir Lenin and a highly influential figure in dev...

Russian 20TH Century Feminist Educator

7.3 Good

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Alexandra Kollontai

Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian Bolshevik feminist who became Soviet commissar for social welfare in 1917 and later a...

Russia 20TH Century Feminist Diplomat

7.2 Good

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Mehdi Ben Barka

Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka led the radical wing of the National Union of Popular Forces before his infamous, st...

20TH Century Moroccan Pan African Socialist

7.2 Good

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Antonio Guiteras

Antonio Guiteras was a prominent Cuban revolutionary who served as Minister of the Interior during the 1933 revolution,...

Cuban 20TH Century Socialist Martyr

7.1 Good

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Dolores Jiménez y Muro

Dolores Jiménez y Muro was a Mexican revolutionary and journalist who co-founded the Mexican Liberal Party in 1911 and a...

20TH Century Mexican Feminist Anarchist

6.9 Fair

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Modibo Keïta

Malian politician Modibo Keïta became the first President of Mali in 1960, notable for championing Pan-Africanism and im...

20TH Century Independence Pan African Malian

6.7 Fair

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Raúl Sendic

Raúl Sendic was a Uruguayan lawyer and founder of the Tupamaros, an urban guerrilla movement active in Uruguay during th...

20TH Century Uruguay Socialist Guerrilla

6.5 Fair

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Houari Boumédiène

Algerian revolutionary Houari Boumédiène seized power in 1965 to become President, ruling the National Liberation Front...

Military 20TH Century Socialist Algerian

6.2 Fair

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Phoolan Devi

Indian dacoit and later politician known as the Bandit Queen who targeted upper-caste men in the 1980s, served prison ti...

Indian 20TH Century Feminist Dalit

6.0 Fair

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Héctor Béjar

Peruvian Marxist who led an ELN-affiliated guerrilla campaign in the 1960s, was imprisoned, and decades later briefly se...

20TH Century Ela Peruvian Writer

5.4 Mediocre