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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 ...
Brian Haw (1949–2011) – British activist, initiated and long time participant of the Parliament Square Peace Campaign; Tom Hayden (1939–2016) – American civil rights activist, anti-Vietnam war leader, author, California politician; Wilson A. Head (1914–1993) – American/Canadian sociologist, activist
This is a list of lists of activists. List of abolitionists; ... List of civil rights leaders; List of disability rights activists; List of environmental organizations;
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 ...
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
Harriet Tubman is one of the most famous Black historical figures out there. She was born into slavery in Maryland in the early 19th century. ... activist who fought for civil rights in the United ...
Addie L. Ballou (1838–1916) – activist, journalist and lecturer on temperance, women's suffrage, and prison reform. [17] Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement. [18]
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.