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Frances Perkins

This person witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and was inspired by that to advocate for workers' rights. This person was also the Secretary of Labor in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Dwight Eisenhower

This person was president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 and served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during part of WWII.

Dorothy Day

This person founded a newspaper called the Catholic Worker and worked for many years helping homeless and vulnerable populations through service and charity.

A. Philip Randolph

This person was a pivotal and forceful figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. This character had favorable views of communism earlier in life, but later changed those views.

George Eliot

This person was a famous novelist who wrote Middlemarch and, after being devoutly religious in early life, later rejected religion, leading to social scandal and problems...

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