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Jolie Christine Rickman

During her stint at UIUC, Rickman took part in many politically progressive efforts, including the movement that launched the University YMCA’s Alternative Spring Break program, which, to this day, continues to connect young people with important nation-wide social justice issues.


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Barbara Seaman

Seaman, whose parents, Henry J. Rosner and Sophie Kimels, met at a Young People's Socialist League picnic, grew up in a politically progressive milieu (Pete Seeger sang at her nursery school when she was four years old).

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Born in Havana on December 11, 1928, Gutiérrez was raised in an affluent, politically progressive family.