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Eugene V. Debs
Ruby Dee

David Dellinger
Vine Deloria

Eugene V. Debs
b. 11-5-1855; Terre Haute, IN
d. 10-20-1926; PA

“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.” - Eugene V. Debs

Labor leader Eugene V. Debs was one of the founders of the International Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and a five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for U. S. President.

Debs also was arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917 for protesting World War I and was sentenced to prison. President Warren B. Harding commuted his sentence to time served in 1921.

• The Pullman Strike, 1894
• Walls and Bars by Eugene V. Debs

Ruby Dee
neé Ruby Ann Wallace
b. 10-27-1924; Cleveland, OH

Ruby Dee, an actress whose career crossed all major forms of media over a span of eight decades, is also a poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist.

• Black History posters

David Dellinger
b. 8-22-1915; Wakefield, MA
d. 5-25-2004; Montpelier, Vermont

David Dellinger was a pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change best remembered for being one of the Chicago Seven, protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Vine Deloria, Jr.
b. 3-26-1933; South Dakota
d. 11-13-2009; Golden, CO

Vine Deloria was an author, theologian, historian and activist who challenged whites to question stereotypes and take a new look at the history of American western expansionism.

Charlotte Despard
neé French
b. 6-15-1834; England
d. 11-19-1939

Charlotte Depard was a feminist and socialist reformer who bemoaned her Victorian upbringing and lack of education. She was also a pacificist, much to the dismay of her brother who was commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Forces in WWI; worked for Irish independence; and became a communist.

She was also noted for wearing a mantilla and open-toed sandals, and writing romantic novels with high-minded heroines, exotic settings, and happy endings.