Well if we are talking about voting rights and equality, that would be Martin Luther King. He set equality for black people while Abraham Lincoln had just freed them decades earlier.
Swahili was a trade language on the coastline of Eastern Africa and in was a primar link to the Indian Ocean.
Thanks to the Swahili <u>trade routes</u> (prolonged from Tanzania to the Democratic Republic of Congo), goods were brought to the coasts and were sold to Arab and Indian sellers.
Finally, this language had an important role in the trade of ivory and enslaved people since Swahili dealers have acted as <u>intermediaries</u> between colonial governments and African ethnic groups for the last 200 decades.
“State rights - The leaders in the South wanted the states to make most of their own laws. In the North, people wanted a stronger national government that would make the same laws for all the states. Slavery - Most of the Southern states had economies based on farming and felt they needed slave labor to help them farm.”