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HST 306 Exam 2
Names to Know for Exam 2-Professor Bailey
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Earl Browder
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Head of Communist Party.  Warned people of Nazis until Hitler-Stalin pact made; then said Hitler was not so bad
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Granville Hicks
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Leading member of English department at Harvard.  Heavily criticized non-communist parties.  Stated that communists were not to be feared; resigned from communist party after pact
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Kate Smith
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Singer of "God Bless America"
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Woody Guthrie
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Ex-Communist folksinger. Hated the Hitler-Stalin pact
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Edward R. Murrow
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American journalist who reported from London about the Nazis during bombings. Later became the head of Voice of America organization
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Bill Mauldin
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Cartoonist drafterd into army who drew cartoons that expressed how army troops felt
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Ernie Pyle
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Star reporter for Washington newspapers that followed troops through North Africa and Italy andf wrote about the experiences that they had.
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Vannevar Bush
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One of the finest PhD's in Engineering in America, first head of Scientific Research & Development
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John Mauchley
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Professor at University of Penn; built first digital computer
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Leo Szilard
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Hungarian refugee that came up with notion that Einstein's theory of relativity whent somewhere and could split atoms.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Rare physicist who could understand how things worked and how to make things work in physics. Started the Manhattan Project
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George Marshall
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Washington soldier; chief of staff during WWII, later appointed to secretary of state; created Marshall plan
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Thomas Watson Jr.
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started International Buisness Machines-IBM
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Betty Friedan
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wrote "The Feminine Mystique"; made statement that women were being forced back into the household
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Walter Haas Sr.
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Creator of Levi's
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Marlon Brando
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Actor; starred in movies popular to teens in the 50's
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Richard Knerr
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started Wham-O, company that created the Frisbee, hula-hoop, and slip'n'slide
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Harvey Kutzman
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editor of EC comics, created Mad Magazine
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Alan Freed
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Cleveland DJ, played blues music
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Elvis Presley
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Signed with Sun Records
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A. Phillips Randolph
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essential figure in labor force of African Americans; leading union organizers. Head of Pullman labor force union.
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Marion Anderson
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black opera singer than sang in front of the Lincoln Memorial after being rejected from singing in a Daughters of American Revolution building
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Bayard Rustin
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invented term freedom rider, organized King's March on Washington
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Rosa Parks
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Trained to boycott; Head of NAACP in Alabama
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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originally didn't want anything to do with Civil Rights Movement, made into spokesperson of boycott
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Tom Lehrer
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highly acclaimed mathematician at MIT; wrote political reform folk songs
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James Baldwin
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Leading writer during civil rights movement, wrote Go Tell it on the Mountain-about bigotry & discrimination
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Edward Abbey
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Advocated ecoterrorism; wrote The Monkey Wrench Gang
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Harriette Arnow
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author, wrote about poverty on the mountains; wrote the Dollmaker-about culture of poverty
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Joseph Heller
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wrote Catch-22; first major anti-war novel written
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Charles Whitman
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University of Texas shooter
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Franco Ferracuti & Marvin Wolfgang
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criminologists whoe study of violence and its effect on America became popular-Subculture of Violence
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truman Capote
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gay writer of the New Yorker, wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood-reported violence in America
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Perry Smith, Dick Hickok
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committed the murders in the book "In Cold Blood"
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Joan Didion
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wrote for the National Review, wrote about murders in California' hated the free love movement
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Hunter Thompson
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wrote about his experience of the story, not about the story; wrote for Rolling Stone
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Timothy Leary
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psychologist at Cal; says society needed mood changin psychotropic drugs to solve domestic problems and violence
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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reverend who preached in Detroit who preached that we can be moral people, but society is immoral. JFK and MLK were followers of him
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Norman Vincent Peale
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wrote "the Power of Positive Thinking"-most successful religious book outside of the Bible; Christian self-help book
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Billy Graham
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LA reverend that told followers to repent
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Will Herberg
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American way of life is indivudalistic, dynamic, pragmatic
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Kenneth Stamp
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wrote book about how brutality of slavery was immoral & unjust-Peculiar Institution
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George Kennan
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leading theorist of early Cold War; Theory of Containment
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George Bellows
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Passion in paintings
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Picassa
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painted Guernica
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Thomas Hart Benton
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captures religions revival in America
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CGrant Wood
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painted American Gothic
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Clyfford Still
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wanted to draw art representing Workers in America; tried to understand what it meant to be a human being and painted accordingly
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Charles Pollock
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Professor of art at MSU; taught his brother to paint
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Jackson Pollock
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Action painting; convergence
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Helen Frankenthaler
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Blotch paintings
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Mark Rothko
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artist
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Willem Dekooning
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artist
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Franz Kline
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artist
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Andrew Wyeth
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picture of girl in field by farmhouse; ridiculed by fellow artists
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Michael Young
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wrote Rise of the Meritocracy; permanent elite in government, people who believe they have achieved power b/c of their merit, problem of stove piping
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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first meritoratic president
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Joseph Kennedy
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father of JFK; made money from mob in Boston & married mayor's daughter, Rose
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robert Moses
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planned development of NYC, hated Ebbets Field, wanted Dodgers to move to Queens
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Lamar Hunt
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created American Football League and built the Astrodome
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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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architect who built buildings in Chicago, plain buildings that were cheaper to put up; economical, not liveable
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Charles & Ray Eames
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disciples of Mies from Michigan
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Hubert Humphery
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liberal who wanted Activist government, and sharing American ideals w/the rest of the world; LBJ's vice president
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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first "liberal" president in history; won re-election on liberal platform
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G. Mennen Williams
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governor of Michigan, built Mackinac Bridge, massive state spending on K-12 education
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Berry Gordy
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born in Detroit, founder of Motown Record
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Jackie Wilson
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first major artist to have success under Gordy
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Marvelous Marv Johnson
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first major artis with Tamla Records
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William "Smokey" Robinson
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light skinned church going boy from Detroit
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The Primettes
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young girl group that eventually became the Supremes
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The Supremes
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Flo Ballard, Mary Wilson, Betty McGlown, originally clapped in the background of records
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Diana Ross
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had a "romance" with Berry Gordy; lead singer of the Supremes
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Funk Brothers
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baked up great bands such as the Temptations
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The Temptations
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Eddie Kendricks-lead singer
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Stevland Judkins
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Stevie Wonders; played "Real Church Music"
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Lula Mae Hardaway
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mother of Stevland Judkins
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Marvin Gaye
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had a career before going to Motown
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Samuel Beckett
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playwrite, wrote Waiting for Gadreaux; one of the funniest plays ever written; odd, strange plays
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John Osbourne
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wrote "Look Back in Anger"
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Harold Pinter
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plays are sinister
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Edward Bon
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"Saved"
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David Storey
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working class life
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John Paul Sartre
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created theory of existentialism
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Edward Albee
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wrote "The American Dream" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?"; wrote plays in America using themes from Europe
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The Quarrymen
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skiffle band that would eventually become the Beatles
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The Rolling Stone
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did the blues
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The Animals
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British band that did the blues
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The Yardbirds
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British band that did the blues; Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page
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Ho Chi Minh
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leader of North Vietnam; originally lived in America and Britain
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Walt Rostow
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Stages of Growth theory, countries undergo sudden bursts of reformation; advisor to President Kennedy
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Robert Strange McNamara
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Secretary of Defense for Kennedy & Johnson
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Mario Savlo
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leader of Berkeley Revolt
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Phils Ochs
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Draft Dodger Rag, mobilization against the War in vietnam (The Mobe)
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Merle Haggard
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"Okie From Muskogee" wrote Anti-antiwar songs
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Theodore Roszak
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wrote Making of the Counter Culture
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Thurgood Marshall
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Head of legal division of NAACP; had to come up with lawsuits to sue the government; First African American member of the Supreme Court
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Henry David Thoreau
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Nature comes first
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Major Stoneman Douglas
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wrote for major newspapers of Florida, wrote book-length study of a swamp; leading advocate of preserving Everglade
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David Brower
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Changed sierra club from social club into a fundamental organization to protect the environment
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Rachel Carson
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wrote Silent Spring; Government scientist; started modern environmental movement
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Dorothy Day
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campaigned in front of UN to stop nuclear warfare, the War in Vietnam
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Michael Harrington
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wrote articles that were put together in The Other America
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Zilphia Horton
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Musician "We Shall Overcome"
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The Weavers
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2 of 4 were communists
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Joan Baez
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Voice for a group that wanted to articulate reform i nsong
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Robert Zimmerman
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sang like Woddy Guthrie; "Blowing in the Wind"
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Winston Churchill
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British Prime Minister during and after WWI
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Harry Truman
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President after FDR died
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Richard Nixon
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Senator on the House of un-American Activities Committee
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Whittaker Chambers
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editor of Time Magazine; claimed Alger Hiss was a traitor to America form Russia
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Alger Hiss
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accused of being a communist and a Russian spy; found guilty of perjury;
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David Greenglass
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minor clerk during Manhattan project
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Julius & Etheal Rosenberg
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American communist couple who were convicted and executed for conspiracy to commit espionage
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Joseph McCarthy
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Wisconsin senator; involvement in anti-communist crusade when almost over; proclaimed to have a list of names of communists, but really didn't
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Arthur Miller
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wrote the Crucible about Salem witch trials, linked witch trials to Communist crusades
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William Wellman
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director of famous western movie "Bad Guy"
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John Wayne
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actor who played cowboy who takes care of trouble in town with some help
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Alfred Hitchcock
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director who transformed film
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Charlie Parker
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saxophonist who was self-taught, did drugs
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Jack Kerovac
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writer from Massachusetts, never trained as a writer, inspired by experience
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Allen Ginsburg
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Gay, unhappy, Jewish poet
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