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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, led India’s struggle for independence from British rule. His philos...

India Organizer 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.8 Brilliant

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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary who led the Red Army after 1917, opposed Stalin from exile, and was assassinate...

Russia 20TH Century Marxist Commander

8.6 Great

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Walter Sisulu

Walter Sisulu was a pivotal figure in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement. As an organizer within the African Nationa...

Organizer ANC 20TH Century South African

8.4 Great

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Oliver Tambo

Oliver Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid leader who headed the ANC in exile from 1967 and helped build internatio...

South Africa Organizer ANC 20TH Century

8.2 Great

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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist writer and activist in the United States, deported in 1919 for anti-war and ra...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Writer

8.2 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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Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist leader in Maharashtra who helped found the Home Rule League in 1916 and pr...

India Organizer 20TH Century Independence

7.8 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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Farabundo Martí

Farabundo Martí was a Salvadoran communist organizer tied to the 1932 peasant uprising against the Martínez regime in El...

Organizer 20TH Century Uprising El Salvador

7.4 Good

10

Frank País

Frank País was a Cuban revolutionary organizer who led urban resistance for the July 26 Movement in Santiago de Cuba bef...

Organizer Cuban 20TH Century Urban

7.4 Good

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Errico Malatesta

Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarchist organizer active across Europe and the Americas, publishing Umanità Nova in It...

Organizer Italy 20TH Century Anarchist

7.4 Good

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Celia Sánchez

Celia Sánchez was a Cuban revolutionary who organized support for the Granma expedition and became a key member of Fidel...

Organizer Cuban 20TH Century Cuba

7.3 Good

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Karl Liebknecht

Karl Liebknecht was a German socialist who opposed World War I, co-founded the Spartacus League, and was killed after th...

Germany Organizer 20TH Century Marxist

7.3 Good

14

Kim Gu

Kim Gu was a Korean independence activist who led the Korean Provisional Government in exile and opposed the peninsula's...

Organizer 20TH Century Korea Independence

7.3 Good

15

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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Haydée Santamaría

Haydée Santamaría was a Cuban revolutionary who survived the 1953 Moncada attack and later founded the Casa de las Améri...

Organizer Cuban 20TH Century Cuba

7.1 Good

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Chandrashekhar Azad

Chandrashekhar Azad was an Indian revolutionary who led the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and died in a 193...

India Organizer 20TH Century Independence

7.0 Good

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Surya Sen

Surya Sen was a Bengali revolutionary who led the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid against British rule and was executed by...

India Organizer 20TH Century Independence

6.8 Fair

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Vera Figner

Vera Figner was a Russian Narodnaya Volya member involved in the movement that assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 1881, t...

Russia Organizer 19TH Century Populist

6.7 Fair

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Tom Clarke

Tom Clarke was an Irish republican and Fenian veteran, a key planner and signatory of the 1916 Proclamation before his e...

Organizer 20TH Century Ireland Irish

6.7 Fair