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The social heritage and customs of an organized community,society or ethnic group.

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Margaret Sanger

Culture; American culture

(1879 – 1966) Pioneer in birth control. Trained as a nurse, Sanger opened the world’s first birthcontrol clinic (in Brooklyn) in 1915; she also helped organize the Planned ...

George Marshall

Culture; American culture

(1880 – 1959) General of the Army and statesman. After a long military career, including service in the First World War, the Philippines and China, Marshall became Army Chief of ...

Douglas MacArthur

Culture; American culture

(1880 – 1964) Scion of an Army family with experience of East Asia, General MacArthur made his name in the assault on the Philippines during the Second World War. After losing the ...

Sam Rayburn

Culture; American culture

(1882 – 1961) Democratic congressional leader and Speaker of the House from 1940 to 1961. Elected to the House from rural Texas in 1913, Rayburn built up formidable connections ...

(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt

Culture; American culture

(1884 – 1962) Patrician by birth and marriage, Roosevelt became loved—and hated—on her own for her stands on race and human rights. Niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she ...

Harry S. Truman

Culture; American culture

(1884 – 1972) Elected vice-president in 1944 when Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth consecutive presidential term, Truman became president when Roosevelt died in April 1945. ...

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Culture; American culture

(1885 – 1983) Inventor, engineer and mathematician whose optimism about technology and growth made him a scientific guru of the postwar era. Nimble in combining structures and ...