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Ronald Dellums  

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  • Ronald Vernie Dellums was born into a working-class ethnic community in west Oakland, California, and it has been the base from which he has carved out his reputation as an outspoken critic of oppression both at home and abroad through almost 40 years of public life. On leaving high school in 1954, Dellums joined the Marines. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Dellums, Ronald]

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