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women and social change leadership  

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  • Women have often been in the vanguard of peace and social justice movements. Across cultures and throughout history, women have experienced ongoing systemic oppression; and they have responded with progressive movements of protest and creative alternatives: Harriet Tubman in the fight against slavery; Fannie Lou Hamer for voting rights; Ella Baker and Mary White Ovington in the civil rights movement; Rosa Luxemburg in the German socialist movement; Winnie Mandela in the anti-apartheid movement; Puerto Rican independence leader and poet Lolita Lebron; and American Indian movement activists Anna Mae Aquash, Ingrid Washinawatok, and Winona LaDuke. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Women and Social Change Leadership]

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