Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian and political prisoner. Being an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, he helped shed the light on Gulag labor camp prisons.
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Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) became the icon of the fight against racial segregation when she refused to give up her seat to a...