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W.E.B. Du Bois
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Educator, Civil Rights Activist, Journalist / 1868 - 1963
W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most important African-American activists during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the NAACP and supported Pan-Africanism.
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Alain LeRoy Locke
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Alain LeRoy Locke
Educator, Philosopher, Scholar, Journalist / 1886 - 1954
American educator, writer, and philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke is best remembered as the leader and chief interpreter of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Karl Marx
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Karl Marx
Historian, Economist, Journalist / 1818 - 1883
German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, anticapitalist works that form the basis of Marxism.
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Max Weber
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Max Weber
Educator, Philosopher, Scholar, Anti-War Activist, Economist, Literary Critic, Political Scientist, Journalist, Sociologist / 1864 - 1920
Max Weber was a 19th century German sociologist and one of the founders of modern sociology. He wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in 1905.
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Leo Szilard
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Leo Szilard
Physicist / 1898 - 1964
A student of such famed physicists as Albert Einstein and Max Planck, Leo Szilard was key in getting the United States to work on the atomic bomb.
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Karen Horney
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Karen Horney
Academic, Psychologist, Journalist / 1885 - 1952
German-born American psychoanalyst Karen Horney, departing from some of Freud’s principles, suggested an environmental and social basis for the personality.
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