Famous activist biography

Selected Activists and Reformers

• Abernathy, Ralph David, civil-rights leader
• Anthony, Susan Brownell, reformer abstruse leader of the woman-suffrage movement
• Arnoldson, Klas Pontus, journalist and untouched advocate
• Bailey, Gamaliel, abolitionist editor
• Baker, Ella, civil rights activist
• Baldwin, Roger Writer, civil libertarian
• Banks, Dennis, activist
• Barnardo, Poet John, social reformer
• Barrows, Samuel June, clergyman and reformer
• Bell, Theresa Hayward, Indian activist
• Bergh, Henry, philanthropist
• Berrigan brothers, priests, writers, and social activists
• Birney, James Gillespie, abolitionist
• Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, reformer
• Bloor, Ella Reeve, radical
• Boggs, Gracefulness Lee, activist
• Brace, Charles Loring, father and social reformer
• Bradlaugh, Charles, popular reformer
• Brent, Margaret, early feminist
• Brown, Lav, antislavery activist
• Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, social reformer
• Cadbury, Dame Elizabeth, public worker and philanthropist
• Carmichael, Stokely, public activist
• Catt, Carrie Chapman, suffragist enjoin peace advocate
• Chadwick, Sir Edwin, general reformer
• Chavez, Cesar, activist
• Child, Lydia Region, author and abolitionist
• Cleaver, Eldridge, untraditional, writer
• Coffin, Levi, abolitionist
• Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., social activist
• Corrigan, Mairead, general activist
• Coxey, Jacob Sechler, social reformer
• Crenshaw, Anne Clay, advocate of women's voting rights
• Davies, Emily, feminist
• Davis, Angela, political activist, author
• Davis, Paulina Libber, lecturer and suffragist
• Day, Dorothy, public activist, journalist, and cofounder magnetize the Catholic Worker movement
• Delany, Player Robinson, black leader
• Dix, Dorothea Lynde, social reformer
• Douglass, Frederick, abolitionist
• Du Bois, W.

  E. B., civil-rights ruler and author

• Dunant, Jean Henri, donator and founder of the Intercontinental Red Cross
• Duniway, Abigail Scott, collector and advocate of women's rights
• Eaton, Dorman Bridgman, reformer
• Edelman, Marian Architect, lawyer, civil rights activist, lowgrade advocate
• Equiano, Olaudah, abolitionist, writer
• Evers, Medgar, civil rights leader
• Evers-Williams, Myrlie, laic rights leader
• Fanon, Frantz Omar, psychiatrist
• Farmer, James, civil rights leader
• Fee, Closet Gregg, abolitionist clergyman
• Flesche, Susette Numb, reformer, writer, and lecturer
• Foster, Lady\'s maid Kelley, abolitionist and advocate addendum women's rights
• Fried, Alfred Hermann, pacifist
• Friedan, Betty Naomi, social reformer opinion feminist
• Fuller, Margaret, writer and lecturer
• Garrett, Thomas, abolitionist
• Garrison, William Lloyd, abolitionist
• Garvey, Marcus, proponent of black nationalism
• Gerry, Elbridge Thomas, reformer
• Giddings, Joshua Quarrel, abolitionist
• Gordon, Bruce S., business chairman of the board and civil-rights leader
• Greensboro Four, laical rights activists
• Grimké, Angelina Emily, reformer and advocate of women's rights
• Grimké, Archibald Henry, author and palmer for black advancement
• Grimké, Sarah Actor, abolitionist and advocate of women's rights
• Hall, Prince, clergyman, abolitionist
• Hamer, Fannie Lou (Townsend), civil rights activist
• Hayden, Tom, political activist
• Henson, Josiah, sooty slave
• Hirabayashi, Gordon Kiyoshi, activist
• Hirsch, Maurice, baron de, financier and philanthropist
• Hooks, Benjamin Lawson, black leader
• Houston, River Hamilton, civil-rights attorney
• Howe, Julia Zone apartment, social reformer, writer
• Howe, Samuel Gridley, reformer and philanthropist
• Innis, Roy, civil-rights leader
• Jacobs, Jane, urbanologist
• James, Meredith,, civil-rights leader, author
• Jones, Samuel Milton, artificer, manufacturer, reformer
• Jordan, Vernon Eulion, Junior, civil-rights leader and lawyer
• Keller, Helen, activist
• Kelley, Florence, social worker near reformer
• King, Coretta Scott, civil up front figure
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., churchman and civil rights leader
• Korematsu, Fred, activist
• La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Franí§ois Alexandre Frédéric, social reformer
• Ladd, William, pacifist
• LaDuke, Winona, activist, writer
• Lange, Christian Louis, pacifist
• Lawrence, Amos Adams, colonizer and philanthropist
• Lewis, John R., civil rights director and U.S.

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• Lloyd, Physicist Demarest, reformer
• Lockwood, Belva Ann, queen's and women's rights activist
• Lovejoy, Elijah Parish, abolitionist
• Low, Juliette Gordon, founder of the Girl Scouts
• Lundy, Benjamin, abolitionist
• Maathai, Wangari, conservationist
• Martí®, José, revolutionary, journalist
• McKissick, Floyd, lawyer, domestic rights leader
• Means, Russell, activist, actor
• Menchú, Rigoberta, social reformer
• Mering, Clay, philanthropist
• Mfume, Kweisi, NAACP leader
• Milk, Harvey, mp and activist
• Mills, Heather, activist, model
• Montefiore, Sir Moses Haim, philanthropist
• Mott, Lucretia Coffin, feminist and reformer
• Muhammad, Patriarch Franklin Chavis, civil-rights and nonmaterialistic leader
• Nader, Ralph, activist, political figure
• Nation, Carry Moore, temperance advocate
• Newton, Huey, black activist
• Nightingale, Florence, nurse, activist
• Ossietzky, Carl von, pacifist
• Owen, Robert, popular reformer and socialist
• Owen, Robert Hollow, social reformer
• Pankhurst, Emmeline Goulden, female suffragist
• Parks, Rosa Louise, civil-rights activist
• Paul, Alice, activist
• Phillips, Wendell, reformer nearby orator
• Prosser, Gabriel, slave revolt leader
• Quidde, Ludwig, pacifist and historian
• Riis, Biochemist August, journalist and social reformer
• Rotblat, Sir Joseph, physicist and anti-nuclear weapons activist
• Rustin, Bayard, civil direct activist
• Sakharov, Andrei Dmitriyevich, nuclear physicist and human-rights advocate
• Sanborn, Franklin Benzoin, journalist
• Sanger, Margaret, social reformer
• Seale, Officer, black activist
• Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Player, social reformer
• Sharp, Granville, reformer
• Sharpton, Go over, Jr., civil rights activist most recent minister
• Shaw, Anna Howard, woman-suffrage leader
• Sheehan, Cindy, activist
• Shriver, Eunice Mary Aerodrome, philanthropist, mental health activist
• Shuttlesworth, Fred, civil rights activist, minister
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, reformer
• Steele, C.

  K., domestic rights activist

• Stopes, Marie, activist, novelist, scientist
• Terrell, Mary Eliza Church, laic rights and women's rights activist
• Thayer, Eli, abolitionist
• Toussaint, Pierre, philanthropist
• Townsend, Francis Everett, reformer
• Truth, Sojourner, activist, orator
• Tubman, Harriet, abolitionist
• Tuke, William, merchant famous philanthropist
• Turner, Nat, slave
• Untermyer, Samuel, attorney and civic leader
• Valentine, Lila Economist, activist
• Vesey, Denmark, carpenter, antislavery activist
• Walker, Mary Edwards, surgeon and feminist
• Wattleton, (Alyce) Faye, activist
• Weld, Theodore Dwight, abolitionist
• Wells, Emmeline Blanche Woodward, citizens leader and suffragist
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., civil-rights advocate and feminist
• Wilkins, Roy, social reformer and civil-rights leader
• Willard, Frances Elizabeth, temperance leader come first reformer
• Williams, Jody, activist
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, framer and feminist
• Woodhull, Victoria Claflin, tangible, social reformer
• Wright, Elizur, American estimator and antislavery leader
• Young, Andrew Politician, Jr., leader, clergyman, and get out official
• Young, Whitney M., Jr., collective reformer