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Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement: Willa Brown: 1906 1992 United States: civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M ...
List of LGBT rights activists; List of Muslim feminists; List of Nigerian human rights activists; List of opponents of slavery; List of Pakistan Movement activists; List of peace activists; List of suffragists and suffragettes; List of women's rights activists; List of women pacifists and peace activists; List of women climate scientists and ...
Julian Bond, civil rights activist, professor and writer; Lillie Mae Bradford, civil rights activist; Ruby Bridges, civil rights activist; Aurelia Browder, civil rights activist [6] Ralph Bunche, civil rights activist, scientist, academic, diplomat; Nannie Helen Burroughs, civil and women's rights activist, educator, religious leader and ...
Hannah Clothier Hull (1872–1958) – American Quaker activist, in the leadership of WILPF in the US Inez Jackson (1907–1993) – African American pacifist and civil rights activist Lisa Kalvelage (1923–2009) – German-born American anti-war activist remembered as one of the Napalm ladies
Tom Hayden (1939–2016) – American civil rights activist, anti-Vietnam war leader, author, California politician Wilson A. Head (1914–1993) – American/Canadian sociologist, activist Larry Hebert – Active duty Senior Airman in US Air Force who went on a hunger strike in Washington, D.C., in March and April 2024 to protest U.S. military ...
Shula Keshet (born 1959) – social and political activist and entrepreneur, Mizrahi feminist, artist, curator, writer, educator, and publisher; one of the founders and the executive director of the Ahoti – for Women in Israel; Vicki Knafo (born 1960) – social activist; led the 2003 single-mothers struggle against austerity decrees
Although not often highlighted in American history, before Rosa Parks changed America when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in December 1955, 19th-century African-American civil rights activists worked strenuously from the 1850s until the 1880s for the cause of equal treatment.
Nonviolent civil rights movement student activists sprayed by high-pressure fire hoses during the Birmingham campaign's Children's Crusade. [s 2] [s 3] [s 4] Woolworth Sit-In: 28, May, 1963 Fred Blackwell Jackson, Mississippi, United States [s 2]