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J. Quinn Brisben

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John Quinn Brisben (September 6, 1934 – April 17, 2012) was an American teacher and political activist from Chicago, Illinois. [1]

36 relations: ACT UP, ADAPT, American Federation of Teachers, Barbara Garson, Boycott, C-SPAN, Chicago, Civil rights movement, Diane Drufenbrock, Dust Bowl, Enid, Oklahoma, Freedom Summer, Gurnee, Illinois, Harlan Community Academy High School, History, Illinois, Kelly High School (Chicago), Lists of protests against the Vietnam War, Madison, Wisconsin, Mary Cal Hollis, NAACP, Orlando, Florida, President of the United States, Queer Crips, Secondary school, Social studies, Socialist Party USA, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Studs Terkel, United Farm Workers, United States presidential election, 1976, United States presidential election, 1992, University of Oklahoma, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Vice President of the United States, Willa Kenoyer.

ACT UP

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international direct action advocacy group working to impact the lives of people with AIDS (PWAs) and the AIDS pandemic to bring about legislation, medical research and treatment and policies to ultimately bring an end to the disease by mitigating loss of health and lives.

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ADAPT

ADAPT is a grassroots United States disability rights organization with chapters in 30 states.

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American Federation of Teachers

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is an American labor union that primarily represents teachers.

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Barbara Garson

Barbara Garson (born July 7, 1941 in Brooklyn) is an American playwright, author and social activist, perhaps best known for the play MacBird!.

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Boycott

A boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons.

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C-SPAN

C-SPAN, an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Diane Drufenbrock

Sister Diane Joyce Drufenbrock,, (October 7, 1929 – November 4, 2013), also known as Sister Madeleine Sophie, was an American Religious Sister as a member of the Catholic School Sisters of St. Francis.

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Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.

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Enid, Oklahoma

Enid (ē'nĭd) is a city in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.

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Gurnee, Illinois

Gurnee is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States.

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Harlan Community Academy High School

John Marshall Harlan Community Academy High School is a public 4-year high school and middle school.

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History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kelly High School (Chicago)

Kelly High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Lists of protests against the Vietnam War

Protests against the Vietnam War took place in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County.

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Mary Cal Hollis

Mary Cal Hollis is an American activist.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Queer Crips

Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories is a 2004 anthology edited by Bob Guter and John R. Killacky.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Social studies

In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.

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Socialist Party USA

The Socialist Party of the United States of America"The article of this organization shall be the Socialist Party of the United States of America, hereinafter called 'the Party.'" Art.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization.

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Studs Terkel

Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster.

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United Farm Workers

The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States.

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United States presidential election, 1976

The United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976.

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United States presidential election, 1992

The United States presidential election of 1992 was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election.

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University of Oklahoma

The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a coeducational public research university in Norman, Oklahoma.

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, or regionally as UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

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Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States (informally referred to as VPOTUS, or Veep) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States as the President of the Senate under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4, of the United States Constitution, as well as the second highest executive branch officer, after the President of the United States.

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Willa Kenoyer

Willa Kenoyer (born 13 December 1933 in Tacoma, Washington) was the Socialist Party USA (SPUSA) candidate for President of the United States in the 1988 U.S. presidential election.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Quinn_Brisben

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