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Mina Miller Edison (July 6, 1865 – August 24, 1947) was an American community activist and the second wife of inventor and industrialist Thomas Edison. She was a community activist in Fort Myers, Florida , known for her work advancing the use of public spaces and education initiatives.
Bella Abzug (née Savitzky; July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998), nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, politician, social activist, and a leader in the women's movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem , Shirley Chisholm , and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus . [ 1 ]
Barbara Smith (born November 16, 1946) [1] [a] is an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in Black feminism in the United States. [2] Since the early 1970s, she has been active as a scholar, activist, critic, lecturer, author, and publisher of Black feminist thought.
Civil rights activist, and part of the only married couple to be assassinated during the Civil Rights Movement: Ella Baker: 1903 1986 United States: SCLC activist, initiated the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Kiowa Costonie: 1903 1971 United States: Activist against racial inequality. Known for the "Buy where you can work ...
Edison Tomimaro Uno (Japanese: 宇野 富麿, 1929–1976) was a Japanese American civil rights advocate, best known for opposing laws used to implement the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II and for his role in the early stages of the movement for redress after the war. To many Japanese American activists, Uno was the ...
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
Cecilia Gentili, an Argentina-born artist and activist known for her work in the immigrant and transgender rights movement in New York City, is being widely remembered following her death.
Michelle Malkin (/ ˈ m ɔː l k ɪ n /; née Maglalang; born October 20, 1970) [1] is an American conservative political commentator. She was a Fox News contributor and in May 2020 joined Newsmax TV.