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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 20th-century Timeline | |
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| The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century | |
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| Tom Johnson (1854-1911) | |
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| Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855-1925) | |
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| Eugene Debs (1855-1926) | |
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| Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) | |
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| Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) | |
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| Florence Kelley (1859-1932) | |
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| John Dewey (1859-1952) | |
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| Victor Berger (1860-1929) | |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) | |
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| Jane Addams (1860-1935) | |
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| Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936) | |
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| Hiram Johnson (1866-1945) | |
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| W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) | |
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| William "Big Bill" Haywood (1869-1928) | |
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| Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) | |
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| Emma Goldman (1869-1940) | |
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| Lewis Hine (1874-1940) | |
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| Robert F. Wagner Sr. (1877-1953) | |
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| Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) | |
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| Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | |
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| Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) | |
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| John L. Lewis (1880-1969) | |
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| Helen Keller (1880-1968) | |
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| Frances Perkins (1880-1965) | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) | |
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| Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972) | |
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| Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947) | |
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| Roger Baldwin (1884-1981) | |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) | |
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| Norman Thomas (1884-1968) | |
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| A. J. Muste (1885-1967) | |
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| Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) | |
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| Sidney Hillman (1887-1946) | |
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| Henry Wallace (1888-1965) | |
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| A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) | |
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| Earl Warren (1891-1974) | |
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| Floyd Olson (1891-1936) | |
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| Dorothy Day (1897-1980) | |
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| Paul Robeson (1898-1976) | |
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| William O. Douglas (1898-1980) | |
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| Harry Bridges (1901-1990) | |
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| Langston Hughes (1902-1967) | |
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| Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954) | |
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| Virginia F. Durr (1903-1999) | |
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| Elk Baker (1903-1986) | |
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| Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904-1991) | |
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| Myles Horton (1905-1990) | |
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| Carey McWilliams (1905-1980) | |
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| William J. Brennan Jr. (1906-1997) | |
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| Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) | |
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| Rachel Carson (1907-1964) | |
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| Walter Reuther (1907-1970) | |
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| I. F. Stone (1907-1989) | |
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| Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) | |
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| John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) | |
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| Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) | |
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| Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) | |
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| Harry Hay (1912-2002) | |
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| Studs Terkel (1912-2008) | |
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| David Brower (1912-2000) | |
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| Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) | |
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| Arthur Miller (1915-2005) | |
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| Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) | |
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| C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) | |
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| Barry Commoner (1917-) | |
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| Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) | |
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| Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) | |
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| Pete Seeger (1919-) | |
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| Jerry Wurf (1919-1981) | |
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| Bella Abzug (1920-1998) | |
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| Betty Friedan (1921-2006) | |
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| Howard Zinn (1922-2010) | |
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| Rev. William Sloane Coffin (1924-2006) | |
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| Malcolm X (1925-1965) | |
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| Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) | |
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| Michael Harrington (1928-1989) | |
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| Rev. James Lawson (1928-) | |
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| Noam Chomsky (1928-) | |
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| Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) | |
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| Allard Lowenstein (1929-1980) | |
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| Harvey Milk (1930-1978) | |
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| Ted Kennedy (1932-2009) | |
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| Ralph Nader (1934-) | |
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| Gloria Steinem (1934-) | |
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| Bill Movers (1934-) | |
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| Bob Moses (1935-) | |
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| Tom Hayden (1939-) | |
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| John Lewis (1940-) | |
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| Joan Baez (1941-) | |
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| Bob Dylan (1941-) | |
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| Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-) | |
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| Jesse Jackson (1941-) | |
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| Muhammad Ali (1942-) | |
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| Billie Jean King (1943-) | |
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| Paul Wellstone (1944-2002) | |
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| Bruce Springsteen (1949-) | |
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| Michael Moore (1954-) | |
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| Tony Kushner (1956-) | |
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| The 21st Century So Far | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Permissions | |
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| About the Author | |