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Georg Friedrich Nicolai (1874–1964) – German professor, famous for the book The Biology of War; Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) – German anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor, imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau, vocal pacifist and campaigner for disarmament; Anna T. Nilsson (1869–1947) – Swedish educator and peace activist
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.? Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister from Atlanta who became one of the most important political figures of the 20th century.
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 ...
Asante used five factors in establishing the list: "significance in the general progress of African-Americans toward full equality in the American social and political system" "self-sacrifice and a willingness to take great risks for the collective good" "unusual will and determination in the face of great danger and against the most stubborn odds"
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.
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 ...
Peggy Duff (1910–1981) – British peace activist, socialist, founder and first General Secretary of CND; Diana Francis (born 1944) – British peace activist and scholar, former president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation; Margaret Hills (1882–1967) – British educator, suffragist, feminist and pacifist
View history; Tools. Tools. ... This is a list of lists of activists. ... List of civil rights leaders; List of disability rights activists;