Word: fought
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...From the 40s to the 50s, he fought hard for every civil liberties cause around and carried it over to the commercial field," Kaufman said...
Countryman's political crusade began in the 1950s, while he was teaching at Yale Law School. He fought fiercely against McCarthyism, which was at its height at the time, and he was also a thorn in the side of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover for many years...
...book out this month, The Whole Woman (Knopf; 384 pages; $25)--already a best seller in the U.K. and her native Australia--and a punchy new slogan, "It's time to get angry again." Feminism has stalled, Greer argues convincingly if muddily, pointing out that the equality women have fought for is not the same as liberation and hammering away at the advance of eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, violence against women, the power of the medical profession over women's bodies and, vitally, the feminization of poverty...
Through the Internet I was able to trace my Irish-African-American roots back to County Tipperary, Ireland, and I even found a cousin who now writes me from Ireland every week. I learned of a great-great-granduncle who was the child of a slave and fought in the Civil War. The African-American Genealogy Society is thrilled at all the information and stories its members collectively share. Putting all our pieces of paper in order has shown us the priceless wealth of knowledge we have in our possession--our ancestors--and we are wonderfully proud of our heritage...
...first black Ph.D. from Harvard; he was one of the founding fathers of the field of sociology. He helped establish the N.A.A.C.P. and edited its journal, The Crisis, for 24 years. He was an architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement, and throughout his life brilliantly fought against racial discrimination and for the full participation of blacks in American society. He conceived of the Encyclopedia Africana, a comprehensive history of the African diaspora. He was a staunch opponent (with Bertrand Russell) of the use of nuclear weapons. He published dozens of books and thousands of pivotal essays...