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Allen Ginsberg  

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  • Poet, musician, photographer, and activist, Allen Ginsberg helped define a revolution in American aesthetics and culture. An outspoken advocate for free speech, civil rights, anti-war activism, gender equality, Buddhism, environmental justice, and nonviolent activism, Ginsberg has come to represent the idealism, new vision, and occasional excess of postwar America. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Ginsberg, Allen (1926–1997)]

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