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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary political leader and philanthropist who served as a president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. Nelson Mandela was a brave man the reason he was a human rights hero was because he stood up for his rights against apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr was born on the 1st of October 1924 he was the first ever president to be born in a hospital. He was an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from the 20th of January 1977 to the 20th of January 1981.  Before that he served as a State Senator in Georgia from 1963 to 1967 and he also was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. The reason he was a human rights hero was because campaigned for the presidency in 1976 promising substantial changes in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. The Carter administration thus articulated, devised, and implemented a human rights strategy that would serve as the cornerstone of Carter's foreign policy.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on the 15th of January 1929. He was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 to the 4th of April 1968 when he was assassinated by a man named James Earl Ray. He was shot with a single shot from a Remington Rifle while he was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.