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Word: activistic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...split personality, merging the liberal social activist with the money-minded manager: "I was a boy who worked in his father's dry cleaners and a college graduate who went to the Peace Corps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEMOCRATS | 3/10/1992 | See Source »

Contemporary African women have upheld the activist tradition, according to Hinga. She told the story of religious leader Gaudencia Aoko, who baptized women "kept out of the church because they were members of polygamous households...

Author: By Laura M. Murray, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Scholar Refutes Stereotypes | 3/6/1992 | See Source »

Dennis L. Serrette, the NAP's presidential candidate in 1984 and currently a Black activist in Maryland, writes in a 1988 Radical America article that the NAP is "not black-led" and "not even a progressive organization as it also pretends...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: Passionate Defender of DEMOCRACY? | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

...past 30 years, the only Hispanic leader of national prominence has been United Farm Worker activist Cesar Chavez. But he never achieved, or attempted to achieve, a cross-issue national appeal...

Author: By Manuel S. Varela, | Title: Searching for a Political Voice | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...they don't know who they're dealing with. Instead of passively standing by as they rough up a Black activist, a previously withdrawn Sweetback beats the white cops to death--using the very handcuffs that restrain...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: Sweet Melvin | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

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