List of civil rights leaders explained

NameBornDiedCountryNotes
data-sort-value="Mason, George"George Mason17252025Devin Parker Is The killer
data-sort-value="Paine, Thomas"Thomas Paine17372023Jordan King killed Thomas Paine.
data-sort-value="Freeman, Elizabeth"Elizabeth Freeman17441829also known as Devin Parker– first former slave to win a freedom suit in Massachusetts
data-sort-value="Equiano, Olaudah"Olaudah Equiano17451797
Nigeria		purchased his freedom, helped found the Sons of Africa, and wrote the influential The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano depicting the horrors of the slave trade
data-sort-value="Bentham, Jeremy"Jeremy Bentham17481832British philosopher, writer, and teacher on civil rights, inspiration
data-sort-value="de Gouges, Olympe"Olympe de Gouges17481793women's rights pioneer, writer, beheaded during French Revolution
data-sort-value="Cuguano, Ottobah"Ottobah Cugoano17571791
Ghana		captured from West Africa, he became a member of the Sons of Africa and argued against slavery on Christian and philosophical grounds
data-sort-value="Wilberforce, William"William Wilberforce17591833leader of the British abolition movement
data-sort-value="Wollstonecraft, Mary"Mary Wollstonecraft17591797British author of A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
data-sort-value="Stevens, Thaddeus"Thaddeus Stevens17921868representative from Pennsylvania, anti-slavery leader, originator of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
data-sort-value="Mott, LucretiaLucretia Mott17931880women's rights activist, abolitionist
data-sort-value="Neal, John"John Neal17931876feminist essayist and lecturer active 1823–1876; first American women's rights lecturer[1] [2]
data-sort-value="Brown, John" John Brown18001859abolitionist, orator, martyr
Angelina Grimké18051879advocate for abolition, woman's rights
data-sort-value="Garrison, William Lloyd"William Lloyd Garrison18051879abolitionist, writer, organizer, feminist, initiator
data-sort-value="Spooner, Lysander" Lysander Spooner18081887abolitionist, writer, anarchist, proponent of Jury nullification
data-sort-value="Sumner, Charles" Charles Sumner18111874Senator from Massachusetts, anti-slavery leader
data-sort-value="Kelley, Abby" Abby Kelley18111887abolitionist and suffragette
Harriet Jacobs1813 or 18151897Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, considered an "American classic." Founded schools for fugitive and free slaves.
data-sort-value="Stanton, Elizabeth Cady" Elizabeth Cady Stanton18151902women's suffrage/women's rights leader
data-sort-value="Stone, Lucy" Lucy Stone18181893women's suffrage/voting rights leader
data-sort-value="Douglass, Frederick" Frederick Douglass18181895abolitionist, women's rights and suffrage advocate, writer, organizer, black rights activist, inspiration
data-sort-value="Howe, Julia Ward" Julia Ward Howe18181910writer, organizer, suffragette
data-sort-value="Anthony, Susan B." Susan B. Anthony18201906Women's suffrage leader, speaker, inspiration
data-sort-value="Tubman, Harriet" Harriet Tubman18221913African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
data-sort-value="Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich" Karl Heinrich Ulrichs18251895writer, organizer, and the pioneer of the modern LGBT rights movement
data-sort-value=" Blackwell, Antoinette Brown" Antoinette Brown Blackwell18251921founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869
data-sort-value="Gama, Luís" Luís Gama18301882former slave, a journalist, poet and an autodidact lawyer who defended enslaved people and was among the earlier proponents of the abolitionist and republican movements in 19th-century Brazil.
data-sort-value="Woodhull, Victoria" Victoria Woodhull18381927suffragette organizer, women's rights leader
data-sort-value="Willard, Frances" Frances Willard18391898women's rights activist, woman suffrage leader
data-sort-value="Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre" Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin18421924suffragist, editor, co-founder of the first chapter of the NAACP
data-sort-value="Sheppard, Kate" Kate Sheppard18481934suffragist in first country to have universal suffrage
data-sort-value="Debs, Eugene" Eugene Debs18551926organizer, campaigner for the poor, women, dissenters, prisoners
data-sort-value="Washington, Booker T." Booker T. Washington18561915educator, founder of Tuskegee University, and adviser to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
data-sort-value="Pankhurst, Emmeline" Emmeline Pankhurst18581928founder and leader of the British Suffragette Movement
data-sort-value="Grafton, Charles" Charles Grafton18691948Reverend Charles Grafton Archdioceses of Wisconsin Fond Du Lac. Responsible for Rescue helping the Slaves. Under Ground Railroad Initiator Wisconsin Boston, New York, and the Southern States civil rights, known abolitionist. Brought the Convent of the Holy Nativity Nuns to Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin activist, movement leader, writer, philosopher, and teacher Responsible for helping to establish townships all over Wisconsin, and other parts of the United States
data-sort-value="Catt, Carrie Chapman" Carrie Chapman Catt18591947suffrage leader, president National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women
data-sort-value="Addams, Jane" Jane Addams18601935reformer, co-founder of the Hull House and American Civil Liberties Union, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
data-sort-value="Wells, Ida B." Ida B. Wells18621931journalist, early activist in 20th-century civil rights movement, women's suffrage/voting rights activist
data-sort-value="Du Bois, W.E.B" W.E.B. Du Bois18681963writer, scholar, founder of NAACP
data-sort-value="Gandhi, Kasturba Gandhi" Kasturba Gandhi18691944wife of Mohandas Gandhi, activist in South Africa and India, often led her husband's movements in India when he was imprisoned
data-sort-value="Gandhi, Mahatma" Mahatma Gandhi18691948The Father of India, greatest unifier of Indians pre-Independence and peaceful activist, Pan-Indian Freedom movement Leader, writer, philosopher, social awakening reg Dalits and teacher/inspiration to many like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr.
data-sort-value="Patel, Sardar Vallabhbhai" Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel18751950activist, movement leader, followed and trusted Mahatma Gandhi's Ideology and peaceful movement.
data-sort-value="Jinnah, Muhammad Ali" Muhammad Ali Jinnah18761948lawyer, politician, and the founder of Pakistan; lead Pakistan Movement for the rights of Muslims in the subcontinent
data-sort-value="Burns, Lucy" Lucy Burns18791966women's suffrage/voting rights leader
data-sort-value="Phillips, Homer G." Homer G. Phillips18801931Republican political figure, and a prominent advocate for civil rights.[3]
data-sort-value="do Patrocínio, José" José do Patrocínio18541905Journalist, one of the main leaders of the abolitionist movement in Brazil.
data-sort-value="Roosevelt, Eleanor" Eleanor Roosevelt18841962women's rights and human rights activist both in the United States and in the United Nations
data-sort-value="Paul, Alice" Alice Paul18851977Women's Voting Rights Movement leader, strategist, and organizer
data-sort-value="Garvey, Marcus" Marcus Garvey18871940political activist, publisher, journalist
data-sort-value="Schlesin, Sonia" Sonia Schlesin18881956worked with Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa and led his movements there when he was absent
data-sort-value="Kagawa, Toyohiko" Toyohiko Kagawa18881960labor activist, Christian reformer, author
data-sort-value="Quinn, Bernard J." Bernard J. Quinn18881940Roman Catholic priest
data-sort-value="Nehru, Jawaharlal" Jawaharlal Nehru18891964first Prime Minister of India, central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, advocate for freedom of the press
data-sort-value="Randolph, A. Philip" A. Philip Randolph18891979labor and civil rights movement leader
data-sort-value="Bacha Khan" Abdul Ghaffar Khan18901988Pashtun independence activist and strong advocate for non-violence. Founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.
data-sort-value="Ambedkar, B. R." B. R. Ambedkar18911956social reformer, civil rights activist, and scholar and who drafted Constitution of India, campaigned for Indian independence, fought for the women's rights, fought discrimination and inequality among the people.
data-sort-value="White, Walter Francis" Walter Francis White18951955NAACP executive secretary
data-sort-value="Hernández, Maria L. de" Maria L. de Hernández18961986Mexican-American rights activist
data-sort-value="Duc, Thich Quang" Thích Quảng Đức18971963monk, freedom of religion self-martyr
data-sort-value="Lutuli, Albert" Albert Lutuli18981967President of the African National Congress,[4] against apartheid in South Africa,[5] 1960 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
data-sort-value="Nixon, Edgar" Edgar Nixon18991987Montgomery bus boycott organizer, civil rights activist
data-sort-value="Wilkins, Roy" Roy Wilkins19011981NAACP executive secretary/executive director
data-sort-value="Moore, Harriette" Harriette Moore19021951Civil rights activist, and part of the only married couple to be assassinated during the Civil Rights Movement
data-sort-value="Baker, Ella" Ella Baker19031986SCLC activist, initiated the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Kiowa Costonie19031971Activist against racial inequality. Known for the "Buy where you can work" campaign
data-sort-value="Cooke, Marvel" Marvel Cooke19032000civil rights leader
data-sort-value="Horton, Myles" Myles Horton19051990teacher of nonviolence, pioneer activist, founded and led the Highlander Folk School
data-sort-value="Humphrey, John Peters Humphrey" John Peters Humphrey19051995author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Jack Patten19051957Aboriginal Australian civil rights activist, journalist, founder of first Aboriginal newspaper, led the Cummeragunja Walk-Off in 1939, protested the persecution of Jewish people, President and co-founder of Aborigines Progressive Association, led the first Aboriginal delegation to meet with a sitting Prime Minister.
data-sort-value="Johnson, Nellie Stone" Nellie Stone Johnson19052002labor and civil rights activist
data-sort-value="Moore, Harry T." Harry T. Moore19051951Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement
data-sort-value="Brown, Willa" Willa Brown19061992civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress
data-sort-value="Reuther, Walter P." Walter P. Reuther19071970labor leader and civil rights activist
data-sort-value="Howard, T.R.M." T.R.M. Howard19081976founder of Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro Leadership
data-sort-value="Stanley, Winifred C." Winifred C. Stanley19091996First member of Congress to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination in pay on the basis of sex
Pauli Murray19101985United StatesAmerican civil rights activist who became a lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, and author
data-sort-value="Peratrovich, Elizabeth" Elizabeth Peratrovich19111958Alaskan activist for native people
data-sort-value="Robinson, Amelia Boynton" Amelia Boynton Robinson19112015Selma Voting Rights Movement activist and early leader
data-sort-value="Height, Dorothy" Dorothy Height19122010activist and advocate for African-American women
data-sort-value="Rustin, Bayard Rustin" Bayard Rustin19121987civil rights activist
data-sort-value="Robinson, Jo Ann" Jo Ann Robinson19121992Montgomery bus boycott activist
data-sort-value="Hay, Harry" Harry Hay19122002early leader in American LGBT rights movement, founder Mattachine Society
data-sort-value="Parks, Rosa" Rosa Parks19132005NAACP official, activist, Montgomery bus boycott inspiration
data-sort-value="Bates, Daisy" Daisy Bates19141999organizer of the Little Rock Nine school desegregation events
data-sort-value="Desmond, Viola" Viola Desmond19141965Black Canadian civil rights activist and businesswoman
data-sort-value="Raymond, George" George Raymond19141999civil rights activist, head of the Chester, Pennsylvania branch of the NAACP
data-sort-value="Black, Claude" Claude Black19162009civil rights activist
data-sort-value="Freeman, Frankie Muse" Frankie Muse Freeman19162018civil rights attorney, first woman appointee to United States Commission on Civil Rights
data-sort-value="Hamer, Fannie Lou" Fannie Lou Hamer19171977leader in the American Civil Rights Movement; co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and Freedom Democratic Party
data-sort-value="Foster, Marie" Marie Foster19172003voting rights activist, a local leader in the Selma Voting Rights Movement
data-sort-value="Corona, Humberto" Humberto "Bert" Corona19182001labor and civil rights leader
data-sort-value="Hirabayashi, Gordon" Gordon Hirabayashi19182012Japanese-American civil rights hero
data-sort-value="Mandela, Nelson" Nelson Mandela19182013statesman, leading figure in Anti-Apartheid Movement
data-sort-value="Korematsu, Fred" Fred Korematsu19192005Japanese internment resister during World War II
data-sort-value="Sheikh Mujib,"Sheikh Mujibur Rahman19201975 BangladeshFather of the nation of Bangladesh.
data-sort-value="Farmer, James L." James Farmer19201999Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leader and activist
data-sort-value="Frinks, Golden" Golden Frinks19202004civil rights organizer in North Carolina, field secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
data-sort-value="Friedan, Betty" Betty Friedan19212006writer, women's rights activist, feminist
data-sort-value="Lowery, Joseph" Joseph Lowery19212020SCLC leader and co-founder, activist
data-sort-value="Martin, Del" Del Martin19212008co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis, first social and political organization for lesbians in the US
data-sort-value="Till-Mobley, Mamie Elizabeth" Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley19212003held an open casket funeral for her son, Emmett Till; speaker, activist
data-sort-value="Young, Whitney M." Whitney M. Young, Jr.19211971Executive director of National Urban League, adviser to U.S. presidents
data-sort-value="Evers, Charles" Charles Evers19222020civil rights activist
data-sort-value="Shuttlesworth, Fred" Fred Shuttlesworth19222011clergyman, activist, SCLC co-founder, initiated the Birmingham Movement
data-sort-value="Luper, Clara" Clara Luper19232011sit-in movement leader in Oklahoma, activist
data-sort-value="Baldwin, James" James Baldwin19241987essayist, novelist, public speaker, SNCC activist
data-sort-value="Lyon, Phyllis" Phyllis Lyon19242020co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis, first social and political organization for lesbians in the U.S.
data-sort-value="Vivian, C.T." C.T. Vivian19242020student civil rights leader, SNCC and SCLC activist
data-sort-value="Bruce, Lenny" Lenny Bruce19251966free speech advocate, comedian, political satirist
data-sort-value="Evers, Medgar" Medgar Evers19251963NAACP official in the Mississippi Movement
data-sort-value="Herzig-Yoshinaga, Aiko" Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga19242018activist in Japanese-American redress movement
data-sort-value="Kameny, Frank" Frank Kameny19252011gay rights activist
data-sort-value="Malcolm X" Malcolm X19251965author, speaker, activist, inspiration
data-sort-value="Abernathy, Ralph" Ralph Abernathy19261990activist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official
data-sort-value="Tijerina, Reies" Reies Tijerina19262015Hispano activist
data-sort-value="Forster, Jackie" Jackie Forster19261998English lesbian rights activist
data-sort-value="Williams, Hosea" Hosea Williams19262000civil rights activist, SCLC organizer and strategist
data-sort-value="Chavez, Cesar" Cesar Chavez19271993Chicano activist, organizer, trade unionist
data-sort-value="King, Coretta Scott" Coretta Scott King19272006SCLC leader, activist
data-sort-value="Forman, James" James Forman19282005SNCC official and civil rights activist
data-sort-value="Lawson, James" James Lawson19282024American minister and activist, SCLC's teacher of nonviolence in civil rights movement
data-sort-value="Wiesel, Elie" Elie Wiesel19282016writer, Holocaust survivor, Jewish rights leader
data-sort-value="King, Martin Luther" Martin Luther King Jr.19291968SCLC co-founder/president/chairman, activist, author, speaker
data-sort-value="Uno, Edison" Edison Uno19291976leader for Japanese-American civil rights and redress after World War II
data-sort-value="Walker, Wyatt Tee" Wyatt Tee Walker19282018activist and organizer with NAACP, CORE, and SCLC
data-sort-value="Cotton, Dorothy" Dorothy Cotton19302018SCLC official, activist, organizer, and leader
data-sort-value="Huerta, Dolores" Dolores Huerta1930labor and civil rights activist, initiator, organizer
data-sort-value="Milk, Harvey" Harvey Milk19301978politician, gay rights activist, and leader for the LGBT community
data-sort-value="Richardson, Rupert" Rupert Richardson19302008 civil rights activist and civil rights leader who served as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1992 to 1995
data-sort-value="Morgan, Charles" Charles Morgan, Jr.19302009attorney, established principle of "one man, one vote"
data-sort-value="Tutu, Desmond" Desmond Tutu19312021anti-apartheid organizer, advocate, first black archbishop of Cape Town
data-sort-value="Gittings, Barbara" Barbara Gittings19322007lesbian rights activist
data-sort-value="Gregory, Dick" Dick Gregory19322017free speech advocate, civil rights activist, comedian
data-sort-value="Hendricks, Lola" Lola Hendricks19322013activist, local leader in Birmingham Movement
data-sort-value="Makeba, Miriam" Miriam Makeba19322008singer, anti-apartheid activist
data-sort-value="Jara, Victor" Victor Jara19321973teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist[2] political activist
data-sort-value="Young, Andrew" Andrew Young1932civil rights activist, SCLC executive director
data-sort-value="Branche, Stanley" Stanley Branche19331992civil rights activitst, founder of the Committee For Freedom Now
data-sort-value="Meredith, James" James Meredith1933independent student leader and self–starting Mississippi activist
data-sort-value="Zúñiga, Violeta" Violeta Zúñiga19332019human rights activist
data-sort-value="Innis, Roy" Roy Innis19342017activist, longtime leader of CORE
data-sort-value="Goodall, Jane" Jane Goodall1934scientist, activist, ecologist
data-sort-value="Steinem, Gloria" Gloria Steinem1934writer, activist, feminist
data-sort-value="Moses, Bob" Bob Moses19352021leader, activist, and organizer in '60s Mississippi Movement
data-sort-value="Bevel, James" James Bevel19362008organizer and Direct Action leader, SCLC's main strategist, movement initiator, and movement director
data-sort-value="Jordan, Barbara" Barbara Jordan19361996legislator, educator, civil rights advocate
Richard C. Boone19372013civil Rights activist SCLC, Chaplain, Major US Army
data-sort-value="Sherrod, Charles" Charles Sherrod19372022civil rights activist, SNCC leader
data-sort-value="Kuti, Fela" Fela Kuti19381997multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick
data-sort-value="Nash, Diane" Diane Nash1938SNCC and SCLC activist and official, strategist, organizer
data-sort-value="Colvin, Claudette" Claudette Colvin1939Montgomery bus boycott pioneer, independent activist
data-sort-value="Herer, Jack" Jack Herer19392010pro-hemp activist, speaker, organizer, author
data-sort-value="Bond, Julian" Julian Bond19402015activist, politician, scholar, NAACP chairman
data-sort-value="Hall, Prathia" Prathia Hall19402002SNCC activist, a leading speaker in the civil rights movement
data-sort-value="Lafayette, Bernard" Bernard Lafayette1940SCLC and SNCC activist, organizer, and leader
data-sort-value="Muhammad Yunus," Muhammad Yunus1940 BangladeshBangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.
|- | data-sort-value="Lewis, John" |John Lewis|| 1940|| 2020|| || Nashville Student Movement and SNCC activist, organizer, speaker, congressman|- | data-sort-value="Carmichael, Stokely" |Stokely Carmichael|| 1941|| 1998|| || SNCC and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker|- | data-sort-value="Jackson, Jesse" |Jesse Jackson|| 1941|||| || civil rights activist, politician|- | data-sort-value="Orange, James" |James Orange|| 1942|| 2008|| || SCLC activist and organizer, a voting rights movement leader, trade unionist|- | data-sort-value="Fleischer, Gerd" |Gerd Fleischer|| 1942|||| || human rights activist|- | data-sort-value="Tosh, Peter" |Peter Tosh|| 1944|| 1987|| || Marijuana legalization activist, promoter of the rights of Africans within Africa as well as Black people across the diaspora, reggae musician.|-| data-sort-value="Johnson, Marsha P." |Marsha P. Johnson|| 1945|| 1992|| || Gay liberation activist, STAR co-founder, AIDS activist with ACT UP|-|Heather Booth|1945|||SNCC activist, men’s movement organizer, and founder of the Midwest Academy|- | data-sort-value="Atyam, Angelina" |Angelina Atyam|| 1946|||| || human rights activist for the Aboke abductions|-| data-sort-value= "Oosting, Dick" |Dick Oosting||1946|||| ||human rights lawyer and activist|- | data-sort-value="Beal, Dana" |Dana Beal|| 1947|||| || pro-hemp activist, organizer, speaker, initiator|-|Saïd Bouziri|1947|2009||Tunisian human rights and immigrant rights activist; co- founder of several human rights groups[6] |- | data-sort-value="Row Kavi, Ashok" |Ashok Row Kavi|| 1947|||| || LGBT rights activist, gay rights pioneer, founder of Humsafar Trust|- | data-sort-value="Chavis, Benjamin" |Benjamin Chavis|| 1948|||| || activist, chemist, minister, author, leader of Wilmington Ten, led Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ, campaigned against environmental racism, executive director of NAACP, national director of Million Man March|- | data-sort-value="Hampton, Fred" |Fred Hampton|| 1948|| 1969|| || NAACP youth leader and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker|- | data-sort-value="Rivera, Sylvia" |Sylvia Rivera|| 1951|| 2002|| || Gay liberation and transgender rights activist, STAR house co-founder|- | data-sort-value="Prakash, Cedric" |Cedric Prakash|| 1951|||| || Jesuit Priest, Human Rights Activist, Organizer, Journalist, and Speaker|- | data-sort-value="Shepard, Judy" |Judy Shepard|| 1952|||| || gay rights activist, public speaker|- | data-sort-value="Cameron, Barbara May" |Barbara May Cameron|| 1954|| 2002 || || advocate for the rights of Native Americans, lesbians, and women|- | data-sort-value="Sands, Bobby" |Bobby Sands|| 1954|| 1981 || || Hunger striker for better conditions for Irish prisoners in British prisons|- | data-sort-value="Baca, Herman"|Herman Baca|| 1943|| || || Chicano activist in California and member of Committee on Chicano Rights|- | data-sort-value="Sharpton, Al" |Al Sharpton|| 1954|||| || clergyman, activist, media|- | data-sort-value="Roscoe, Will" |Will Roscoe|| 1955|||| || gay rights activist|- | data-sort-value="Menchú, Rigoberta" |Rigoberta Menchú|| 1959|||| || indigenous rights leader, co-founder of Nobel Women's Initiative|- | data-sort-value="Nibizi, Eulalie" |Eulalie Nibizi|| 1960|||| || Human rights activist, trade unionist|-| data-sort-value="Goldstein, Steven" |Steven Goldstein|| 1962|||| || gay rights advocate, political activist|- | data-sort-value="Chee Soon Juan" |Chee Soon Juan|| 1962|||| || politician, former political prisoner, democracy and human rights activist|-

| data-sort-value="Pradhan, Manasi" |Manasi Pradhan|| 1962|||| || women's rights activist, founder of Honour for Women National Campaign|-

| data-sort-value="Narmadji, Céline" |Céline Narmadji|| 1964|||| || human and women's rights activist, active in improving conditions for the local population|- | data-sort-value="Parker, Deborah" |Deborah Parker|| 1970|||| || Indigenous rights and women's rights activist who was critical in ensuring the passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013[7] [8] |-|Mariela Belski|1971|||Executive Director, Amnesty International Argentina|-|Gloria Casarez|1971|2014||Latina lesbian civil rights leader and LGBT activist in Philadelphia|- | data-sort-value="Iyer, Harish" |Harish Iyer|| 1979|||| || gender and sexuality rights activist, campaigner against child sexual abuse and for animal rights|-| data-sort-value="Blatt, Kate Lynn" |Kate Lynn Blatt|| 1981||||| Transgender rights activist, Transgender pioneer and civil rights activist Kate Lynn Blatt won a landmark lawsuit against Cabela’s retail Inc. expandng protections for transgender people under the ADA, and became the first trans woman to sue under the Americans with disabilities act|- | data-sort-value="Cudic, Edvin Kanka" |Edvin Kanka Ćudić|| 1988|||| || human rights activist, founder and coordinator of UDIK in Bosnia and Herzegovina|- | data-sort-value="Yousafzai, Malala" |Malala Yousafzai|| 1997|||| || advocate for education for girls, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate|}

See also

References

See each individual for their references.

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Daggett, Windsor . A.J. Huston . A Down-East Yankee From the District of Maine . Portland, Maine . 1920 . 30.
  2. Book: Sears, Donald A. . John Neal . Twayne Publishers . Boston, Massachusetts . 1978 . 080-5-7723-08 . 98.
  3. Web site: A look back: Homer G. Phillips was a leader among blacks in St. Louis. O'Neil. Tim. 2010-06-20. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210324180648/https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-look-back-homer-g-phillips-was-a-leader-among-blacks-in-st-louis/article_5cbde89d-d490-5a90-9a25-79dcc80409c9.html. March 24, 2021.
  4. Web site: The Nobel Peace Prize 1960 . Nobel Foundation . 2008-11-12.
  5. Web site: Geir . Lundestad . Geir Lundestad . The Nobel Peace Prize, 1901–2000 . Nobel Foundation . 2001-03-15 . 2011-10-06.
  6. News: 2009-07-08 . Saïd Bouziri, militant des droits de l'homme . 2024-06-19 . Le Monde.fr . fr.
  7. Lane. Temryss MacLean. The frontline of refusal: indigenous women warriors of standing rock. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 2018 . Routledge. January 15, 2018. 31. 3. 209. 10.1080/09518398.2017.1401151. 149347362 . 1366-5898. 0951-8398. Her courage in sharing her personal story of sexual violence with congress was vital in the passing of the 2013 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). [...] Her dignified poise and presence was pivotal and necessary to pass the tribal provisions that protect Native women and their communities in the VAWA..
  8. News: Nichols. John. John Nichols (journalist). May 24, 2016. The Democratic Platform Committee Now Has a Progressive Majority. Thanks, Bernie Sanders.. live. Democrats. The Nation. Katrina vanden Heuvel. 0027-8378. https://web.archive.org/web/20180603063131/https://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-picks-and-allies-could-write-a-boldly-progressive-platform/. June 3, 2018. June 3, 2018. The Sanders selections are all noted progressives: [...] Native American activist and former Tulalip Tribes Vice Chair Deborah Parker (a key advocate for reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act) [...]..

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