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Frederick Douglass

American abolitionist, orator, publisher, and author

Horace Greeley

American journalist

Robert Dale Owen

American politician and social reformer

Oveta Culp Hobby

American editor and government official

William G. Brownlow

American journalist and politician

Amelia Bloomer

American social reformer

Maria Weston Chapman

American abolitionist

George Creel

American journalist

Ely Moore

American journalist and politician

Duff Green

American political journalist

Gamaliel Bailey

American journalist

Joseph Medill McCormick

United States senator

William Lloyd Garrison

American editor, writer, and abolitionist

Frances Wright

American social reformer

Mary Ashton Rice Livermore

American activist

John Hay Whitney

American sportsman and businessman

Carl Schurz

German-American politician

Walter Hines Page

American author and diplomat

Alice Stone Blackwell

American leader and editor

Lydia Maria Child

American author