The Most Important Public Figures Who Never Held Elected Office

Martin Luther King Jr.In 1955, few had heard of him yet. A mere eight years later, he was moving mountains.2. Frederick DouglassBorn into bondage, he was King’s nineteenth-century precursor and the country’s conscience during the Civil War and after.“A champion of civil rights before FDR, Eleanor…

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