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Lat Dior
Resistance & Human Rights
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Lat Dior

Lat Dior Ngone Latyr Diop
🇸🇳 Senegal
1842 – 1886 (44 years old)

Damel of the Kingdom of Cayor and legendary Senegalese national hero who waged a fierce twenty-year resistance against French colonial governor Louis Faidherbe to stop the French military Dakar-Saint-Louis railway across his sovereign lands.

Dekhele (Louga), Senegal
Cetshwayo kaMpande
Resistance & Human Rights
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Cetshwayo kaMpande

Cetshwayo kaMpande
🇿🇦 South Africa
c. 1826 – 1884 (58 years old)

King of the Zulu Kingdom whose disciplined impi regiments inflicted the most humiliating defeat in British imperial history at the Battle of Isandlwana on January 22, 1879, destroying an entire British invasion army.

Nkandla (KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa
Sojourner Truth
Resistance & Human Rights
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Sojourner Truth

Isabella Baumfree
🇺🇸 United States
c. 1797 – 26 November 1883 (~86 years old)

Pioneering African American abolitionist and women's rights advocate whose fiery rhetoric and celebrated 1851 'Ain't I a Woman?' speech forged an indissoluble link between racial emancipation and gender equality.

Battle Creek, Michigan, United States
Emir Abdelkader
Resistance & Human Rights
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Emir Abdelkader

عبد القادر ابن محيي الدين
🇩🇿 Algeria
1808 – 1883 (74 years old)

Algerian religious and military leader who founded the modern Algerian state, led a legendary fifteen-year resistance against French colonial conquest, and earned global acclaim for defending thousands of Christians in Damascus.

Algiers, Algeria
Cecile Fatiman
Resistance & Human Rights
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Cecile Fatiman

Cecile Fatiman
🇭🇹 Haiti
c. 1771 – c. 1883 (112 years old)

Haitian revolutionary Mambo (Vodou high priestess) who co-presided over the historic August 1791 ceremony at Bois Caiman alongside Dutty Boukman, sacrificing the sacred black pig and distributing its blood to seal the revolutionary oath.

Cap-Haitien, Haiti
Lucretia Mott
Resistance & Human Rights
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Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Coffin
🇺🇸 United States
3 January 1793 – 11 November 1880 (87 years old)

Quaker minister, abolitionist, and women's rights pioneer who co-founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and co-organized the historic 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, United States
William Lloyd Garrison
Resistance & Human Rights
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William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison
🇺🇸 United States
10 December 1805 – 24 May 1879 (73 years old)

Prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer who founded the radical anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator in 1831 and co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.

New York City, New York, United States
Crazy Horse
Resistance & Human Rights
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Crazy Horse

Tȟašúŋke Witkó
🇺🇸 United States
c. 1840 – 5 September 1877 (~37 years old)

Legendary Oglala Lakota war leader who took up arms against the US federal government to fight against encroachment on Lakota territories and way of life, leading the charge that destroyed Custer's battalion at the Little Bighorn.

Fort Robinson, Nebraska, United States
Cheikh Belhaddad
Resistance & Human Rights
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Cheikh Belhaddad

الشيخ محمد أمزيان بلحداد
🇩🇿 Algeria
1790 – 1873 (83 years old)

Revered 80-year-old spiritual master of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order who threw his walking stick into the air on April 8, 1871, mobilizing 250,000 fighters across Kabylie in the greatest anti-colonial uprising of the 19th century.

Seddouk (Béjaïa), Algeria
Cheikh El Haddad
Resistance & Human Rights
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Cheikh El Haddad

محمد أمزيان بن علي الحداد
🇩🇿 Algeria
c. 1790 – 1873 (83 years old)

Spiritual master of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order whose proclamation of holy resistance in April 1871 mobilized hundreds of thousands of disciples alongside Cheikh El Mokrani in the great Algerian uprising.

Seddouk (Béjaïa), Algeria
Moshoeshoe I
Resistance & Human Rights
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Moshoeshoe I

Moshoeshoe I
🇱🇸 Lesotho
c. 1786 – 1870 (84 years old)

Founding Father and King of Lesotho who gathered refugee clans scattered by the Lifaqane wars atop the impregnable mountain fortress of Thaba Bosiu, using military genius and diplomatic skill to defeat Boer and British armies and preserve his nation's independence.

Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho
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