Jim Wallis

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What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson

Vietnam War Timeline

Vietnam War. Fall of Saigon. Helicopter pilot radio transmissions during the United States Saigon evacuation dated: April 29, April 30, 1975. Partial text: 200 Americans left... Do not let South Viets follow too closely. Use Mace...do not fire...

40th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon

President Richard M. Nixon smiles and gives the victory sign as he boards the White House helicopter after his resignation on August 9, 1974 in Washington, D.C.

Timeline of the 1970s

Bar graph of the United States Death Toll during major events. Infogram chart.

U.S. Death Toll During Major Events

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illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.

10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

9 Mind-Altering Plants

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Born	June 4, 1948 (age 76) • Detroit • Michigan
Founder	“Sojourners”

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

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Mildred Loving

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

American religious leader and civil-rights activist

Malcolm X

American Muslim leader

Maulana Karenga

American activist and scholar

Jovita Idár

Mexican American journalist, teacher, and activist

Mike Davis

American historian, urban theorist, and political activist

Reies Tijerina

American activist

Tom Hayden

American activist and author

Todd Gitlin

American political activist and author

Sylvia Mendez

American civil rights activist and nurse

Dick Gregory

American comedian and civil rights activist

Elizabeth Martínez

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Abbie Hoffman

American activist

Mary Eliza Church Terrell

American social activist

Ruth Winifred Brown

American librarian and activist

Jerry Rubin

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Gunnar Dybwad

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Rosemary F. Dybwad

American author and activist

Allard K. Lowenstein

American scholar, political activist, and diplomat

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