I AM Ralph Abernathy (1926–1990) - American activist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) - Indian activist for caste abolition, writer, philosopher, economist, co-wrote and influenced Indian constitution which focused on social rights. Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) - American Womens suffrage leader, speaker, inspiration Ella Baker (1903–1986) - American SCLC activist, initiated the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) James Baldwin (1924–1987) - American essayist, novelist, public speaker, SNCC activist Daisy Bates (1914–1999) - American organizer of the Little Rock Nine school desegregation events. Dana Beal (1947– ) - American pro-hemp activist, organizer, speaker, initiator Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) - British philosopher, writer, and teacher on civil rights, inspiration James Bevel (1936–2008) - American organizer and Direct Action leader, SCLCs main strategist, movement initiator, and movement director. Claude Black (1916–2009) - American civil rights movement activist Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) - founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869 Julian Bond (1940–) - American activist, politician, scholar, lawyer, NAACP chairman Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) - American free speech advocate, comedian, political satirist Lucy Burns (1879–1966) - American womens suffrage/voting rights leader Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) - American SNCC and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) - suffrage leader, president National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) - Chicano activist, organizer, trade unionist,inspiration Claudette Colvin (1939–) - American Montgomery Bus Boycott pioneer, independent activist Marvel Cooke (1903–2000) - American journalist, writer, trade unionist Humberto Bert Corona (1918–2001) - labor and civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton (1930–) - American SCLC official, activist, organizer, and leader Eugene Debs (1855–1926) - American organizer, campaigner for the poor, women, dissenters, prisoners Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) - American abolitionist, womens rights and suffrage advocate, writer, organizer, black rights activist, inspiration W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) - American writer, scholar, founder of NAACP Charles Evers (1922–) - American civil rights movement activist Medgar Evers (1925–1963) - American, NAACP official in the Mississippi Movement James Farmer (1920–1999) - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leader and activist Louis Farrakhan (1933–) - American, Minister and National Representative of the Nation of Islam James Forman (1928–2005) - American SNCC official and civil rights movement activist Marie Foster (1917–2003) - American voting rights activist, a local leader in the Selma Voting Rights Movement Frankie Muse Freeman (1916-) American civil rights attorney, and the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights Betty Friedan (1921–2006) - American writer, womens rights activist, feminist Kasturba Gandhi (1869 – 1944) wife of Mohandas Gandhi, activist in South Africa and India, often led her husbands movements in India when he was imprisoned. Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948) - Indian activist and movement leader, writer, philosopher, teacher, inspiration William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) - writer, organizer, feminist, initiator Dick Gregory - American free speech advocate and activist in the civil rights movement, comedian Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) - French womens rights pioneer, writer, beheaded during French Revolution Prathia Hall (1940–2002) - American SNCC activist, a leading speaker in the civil rights movement Fred Hampton (1948–1969) - American NAACP youth leader and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) - activist in Mississippi movements Harry Hay (1912–2002) - early leader in American LGBT rights movement, founder Mattachine Society Lola Hendricks (1932–) - activist, local leader in Birmingham Movement Jack Herer (1939–2010) - American pro-hemp activist, speaker, organizer, author Gordon Hirabayashi (1918–2012) - Japanese-American civil rights hero Myles Horton (1905–1990) - American teacher of nonviolence, pioneer activist, founded and led the Highlander Folk School T.R.M. Howard (1908–1976) - founder of Mississippis Regional Council of Negro Leadership Julia Ward Howe (1818–1910) - American writer, organizer, suffragette Dolores Huerta (1930– ) - American labor and civil rights activist, initiator, organizer John Peters Humphrey (1905–1995) - author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights Jesse Jackson (1941–) - American civil rights activist, politician Nellie Stone Johnson (1905–2002) - labor and civil rights activist Toyohiko Kagawa (1888 – 1960) - Japanese labour activist, Christian reformer, author Meir Kahane - controversial Jewish rights leader, founder of the Jewish Defense League Abby Kelley (1811–1887) - American abolitionist and suffragette Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) - American SCLC leader, activist, inspiration Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) - SCLC co-founder/president/chairman, activist, author, speaker, inspiration James Lawson (1928–) - American minister and activist, SCLCs teacher of nonviolence in late 1950s and early 1960s civil rights movement Bernard Lafayette (1940–) - American SCLC and SNCC activist, organizer, and leader John Lewis (1940–) - American Nashville Student Movement and SNCC activist, organizer, speaker, inspiration Sigmund Livingston (1872-1946) - Jewish rights activist, founder of the Anti-Defamation League Joseph Lowery (1921–) - American SCLC leader and co-founder, activist Clara Luper (1923–2011) - American sit-in movement leader in Oklahoma, activist James Madison (1751–1836) - American founding father, introduced and lobbied for the U.S. Bill of Rights Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) - South African statesman, leading figure in anti-apartheid movement, inspiration George Mason (1725–1792) - American who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and influenced U.S. Bill of Rights Rigoberta Menchú (1959) - Guatemalan indigenous rights leader, co-founder Nobel Womens Initiative James Meredith (1933–) - American independent student leader and self–starting Mississippi activist Mamie Till Bradley Mobley - American who held an open casket funeral for her son, Emmett Till; speaker, activist Charles Morgan, Jr. (1930–2009) - American attorney, established principle of one man, one vote Harvey Milk (1930–1978) - American politician, gay rights activist and leader, inspiration Bob Moses (1935–) - leader, activist, and organizer in 60s Mississippi Movement Diane Nash (1938–) - American SNCC and SCLC activist and official, strategist, organizer Edgar Nixon (1899–1987) - Montgomery Bus Boycott organizer, civil rights activist James Orange (1942–2008) - American SCLC activist and organizer, a voting rights movement leader, trade unionist Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) - founder and leader of the British Suffragette Movement Rosa Parks (1913–2005) - American NAACP official, activist, Montgomery Bus Boycott inspiration Alice Paul (1885–1977) - American 1910s Womens Voting Rights Movement leader, strategist, and organizer Thomas Paine (1737-1809) - English-American activist, author, theorist, wrote Rights of Man Elizabeth Peratrovich (1911–1958) - Alaska activist for native people A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979) - American labor and civil rights movement leader Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911–) - Selma Voting Rights Movement activist and early leader Jo Ann Robinson (1912–1992) - Montgomery Bus Boycott activist. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) - womens rights and human rights activist both in the United States and in the United Nations Bayard Rustin (1912–1987) - American civil rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-) - Burmese Politician, former political prisoner, democracy and human rights activist Sonia Schlesin (1888–1956) - worked with Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa and led his movements there when he was absent. Al Sharpton (1954–) - American clergyman, activist, media Charles Sherrod - American civil rights activist, SNCC leader Judy Shepard (1952–) - gay rights activist, public speaker Kate Sheppard (1847–1934) - New Zealand suffragist in first country to have universal suffrage Fred Shuttlesworth (1922–2011) - American clergyman, activist, SCLC co-founder, initiated the Birmingham Movement Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) - American abolitionist, writer, anarchist, proponent of Jury nullification Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) - American womens suffrage/womens rights leader Gloria Steinem (1934–) - American writer, activist, feminist Lucy Stone (1818–1893) - American womens suffrage/voting rights leader Thich Quang Duc (1897–1963) - Vietnamese monk, freedom of religion self-martyr Desmond Tutu (1931–) - South African anti-apartheid organizer, advocate, inspiration Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) - German writer, organizer, and the pioneer of the modern LGBT rights movement. C.T. Vivian (1924–) - American student civil rights leader, SNCC and SCLC activist Wyatt Tee Walker - American activist and organizer with NAACP, CORE, and SCLC Booker T. Washington (1865-1915) Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) - American journalist, early activist in 20th Century Civil Rights Movement, womens suffrage/voting rights activist Walter Francis White (1895–1955) - American NAACP executive secretary Elie Wiesel - (1928–) Jewish rights leader William Wilberforce (1759-1833) - leader of English abolition movement Roy Wilkins - (1901–1981) American NAACP executive secretary/executive director Frances Willard (1839–1898) - American womens rights activist, suffrage leader Hosea Williams (1926–2000) - American civil rights activist, an SCLC organizer and strategist Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) - American suffragette organizer, womens rights leader Malcolm X (1925–1965) - American author, speaker, activist, inspiration Andrew Young (1932–) - American SCLC activist and executive director Whitney M. Young, Jr. (1921–1971) - Exec. Director National Urban League, advisor to U.S. Presidents AND SO ARE YOU !!!!!
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