Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893) was [a Black] American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. She was the first [Black Woman] publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.

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Tunis Campbell [Sr.], a Black [Man] who built an independent community with its own schools, courts, and army in the heart of the South right after slavery ended. He gave Black [People] land, protection, and power, and the system tried to crush him for it.

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John La Rose (27 December 1927 – 28 February 2006) was a political and cultural activist, poet, writer, publisher, founder in 1966 of New Beacon Books,

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