List of civil rights leaders

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Olympe de Gouges
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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
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Victoria Woodhull
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Alice Paul
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B. R. Ambedkar
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Walter P. Reuther
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Dorothy Height
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Nelson Mandela
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Betty Friedan
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Frank Kameny
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Elie Wiesel
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Desmond Tutu
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James Bevel
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George Mason

Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights. They work to protect individuals and groups from political repression and discrimination by governments and private organizations, and seek to ensure the ability of all members of society to participate in the civil and political life of the state.

List

People who motivated themselves and then led others to gain and protect these rights and liberties include:

Name Born Died Country Notes
George Mason 1725 1792 Script error: No such module "flag". wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and influenced the United States Bill of Rights
Thomas Paine 1737 1809 Script error: No such module "flag". English-American activist, author, theorist, wrote Rights of Man
Elizabeth Freeman 1744 1829 Script error: No such module "flag". also known as Mum Bett – first former slave to win a freedom suit in Massachusetts
Olaudah Equiano 1745 1797 Template:GRB
Template:Country data 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
Jeremy Bentham 1748 1832 Template:GRB British philosopher, writer, and teacher on civil rights, inspiration
Olympe de Gouges 1748 1793 Script error: No such module "flag". women's rights pioneer, writer, beheaded during French Revolution
Ottobah Cugoano 1757 1791 Template:GRB
Template:Country data Ghana 		captured from West Africa, he became a member of the Sons of Africa and argued against slavery on Christian and philosophical grounds
William Wilberforce 1759 1833 Template:GRB leader of the British abolition movement
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 1797 Script error: No such module "flag". British author of A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Thaddeus Stevens 1792 1868 Script error: No such module "flag". representative from Pennsylvania, anti-slavery leader, originator of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Lucretia Mott 1793 1880 Script error: No such module "flag". women's rights activist, abolitionist
John Neal 1793 1876 Script error: No such module "flag". feminist essayist and lecturer active 1823–1876; first American women's rights lecturer[1][2]
John Brown 1800 1859 Script error: No such module "flag". abolitionist, orator, martyr
Angelina Grimké 1805 1879 Script error: No such module "flag". advocate for abolition, woman's rights
William Lloyd Garrison 1805 1879 Script error: No such module "flag". abolitionist, writer, organizer, feminist, initiator
Lysander Spooner 1808 1887 Script error: No such module "flag". abolitionist, writer, anarchist, proponent of Jury nullification
Charles Sumner 1811 1874 Script error: No such module "flag". Senator from Massachusetts, anti-slavery leader
Abby Kelley 1811 1887 Script error: No such module "flag". abolitionist and suffragette
Wendell Phillips 1811 1884 Script error: No such module "flag". abolitionist, labor reformer, temperance activist, advocate for Native Americans
Harriet Jacobs 1813 or 1815 1897 Script error: No such module "flag". her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, considered an "American classic." Founded schools for fugitive and free slaves.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815 1902 Script error: No such module "flag". women's suffrage/women's rights leader
Lucy Stone 1818 1893 Script error: No such module "flag". women's suffrage/voting rights leader
Frederick Douglass 1818 1895 Script error: No such module "flag". abolitionist, women's rights and suffrage advocate, writer, organizer, black rights activist, inspiration
Julia Ward Howe 1818 1910 Script error: No such module "flag". writer, organizer, suffragette
Susan B. Anthony 1820 1906 Script error: No such module "flag". women's suffrage leader, speaker, inspiration
Harriet Tubman 1822 1913 Script error: No such module "flag". African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 1825 1895 Template:GER writer, organizer, and the pioneer of the modern LGBT rights movement
Antoinette Brown Blackwell 1825 1921 Script error: No such module "flag". founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869
Luís Gama 1830 1882 Template:Flagcountry former 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.
Victoria Woodhull 1838 1927 Script error: No such module "flag". suffragette organizer, women's rights leader
Frances Willard 1839 1898 Script error: No such module "flag". women's rights activist, woman suffrage leader
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 1842 1924 Script error: No such module "flag". suffragist, editor, co-founder of the first chapter of the NAACP
Kate Sheppard 1848 1934 Script error: No such module "flag". suffragist in first country to have universal suffrage
Eugene Debs 1855 1926 Script error: No such module "flag". organizer, campaigner for the poor, women, dissenters, prisoners
Booker T. Washington 1856 1915 Script error: No such module "flag". educator, founder of Tuskegee University, and adviser to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
Emmeline Pankhurst 1858 1928 Script error: No such module "flag". founder and leader of the British Suffragette Movement
Charles Grafton 1869 1948 Script error: No such module "flag". Reverend 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
Carrie Chapman Catt 1859 1947 Script error: No such module "flag". suffrage leader, president National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women
Jane Addams 1860 1935 Script error: No such module "flag". reformer, co-founder of the Hull House and American Civil Liberties Union, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Ida B. Wells 1862 1931 Script error: No such module "flag". journalist, early activist in 20th-century civil rights movement, women's suffrage/voting rights activist
W.E.B. Du Bois 1868 1963 Script error: No such module "flag". writer, scholar, founder of NAACP
Magnus Hirschfeld 1868 1935 Template:GER physician, sexologist and early advocate of homosexual and transgender rights
Kasturba Gandhi 1869 1944 Script error: No such module "flag". wife of Mohandas Gandhi, activist in South Africa and India, often led her husband's movements in India when he was imprisoned
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 1948 Script error: No such module "flag". the 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.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1875 1950 Script error: No such module "flag". activist, movement leader, followed and trusted Mahatma Gandhi's Ideology and peaceful movement.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah 1876 1948 Script error: No such module "flag". lawyer, politician, and the founder of Pakistan; lead Pakistan Movement for the rights of Muslims in the subcontinent
Lucy Burns 1879 1966 Script error: No such module "flag". women's suffrage/voting rights leader
Homer G. Phillips 1880 1931 Script error: No such module "flag". Republican political figure, and a prominent advocate for civil rights.[3]
José do Patrocínio 1854 1905 Script error: No such module "flag". journalist, one of the main leaders of the abolitionist movement in Brazil.
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 1962 Script error: No such module "flag". women's rights and human rights activist both in the United States and in the United Nations
Alice Paul 1885 1977 Script error: No such module "flag". Women's Voting Rights Movement leader, strategist, and organizer
Marcus Garvey 1887 1940 Script error: No such module "flag". political activist, publisher, journalist
Sonia Schlesin 1888 1956 Script error: No such module "flag". worked with Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa and led his movements there when he was absent
Toyohiko Kagawa 1888 1960 Template:JAP labor activist, Christian reformer, author
Bernard J. Quinn 1888 1940 Script error: No such module "flag". Roman Catholic priest
Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 1964 Script error: No such module "flag". first Prime Minister of India, central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, advocate for freedom of the press
A. Philip Randolph 1889 1979 Script error: No such module "flag". labor and civil rights movement leader
Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1890 1988 Script error: No such module "flag". Pashtun independence activist and strong advocate for non-violence. Founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.
B. R. Ambedkar 1891 1956 Script error: No such module "flag". social 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.
Walter Francis White 1895 1955 Script error: No such module "flag". NAACP executive secretary
Maria L. de Hernández 1896 1986 Script error: No such module "flag". Mexican-American rights activist
Thích Quảng Đức 1897 1963 Template:Country data South Vietnam monk, freedom of religion self-martyr
Albert Lutuli 1898 1967 Script error: No such module "flag". President of the African National Congress,[4] against apartheid in South Africa,[5] 1960 Nobel Peace Prize laureate[5]
Edgar Nixon 1899 1987 Script error: No such module "flag". Montgomery bus boycott organizer, civil rights activist
Roy Wilkins 1901 1981 Script error: No such module "flag". NAACP executive secretary/executive director
Harriette Moore 1902 1951 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activist, and part of the only married couple to be assassinated during the Civil Rights Movement
Ella Baker 1903 1986 Script error: No such module "flag". SCLC activist, initiated the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Kiowa Costonie 1903 1971 Template:Country data United States activist against racial inequality. Known for the "Buy where you can work" campaign
Marvel Cooke 1903 2000 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights leader
Myles Horton 1905 1990 Script error: No such module "flag". teacher of nonviolence, pioneer activist, founded and led the Highlander Folk School
John Peters Humphrey 1905 1995 Script error: No such module "flag". author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Jack Patten 1905 1957 Template:Country data Australia Aboriginal 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.
Nellie Stone Johnson 1905 2002 Script error: No such module "flag". labor and civil rights activist
Harry T. Moore 1905 1951 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement
Willa Brown 1906 1992 Script error: No such module "flag". 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 Script error: No such module "flag". labor leader and civil rights activist
T.R.M. Howard 1908 1976 Script error: No such module "flag". founder of Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro Leadership
Winifred C. Stanley 1909 1996 Script error: No such module "flag". first member of Congress to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination in pay on the basis of sex
Pauli Murray 1910 1985 United States American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, and author
Elizabeth Peratrovich 1911 1958 Script error: No such module "flag". Alaskan activist for native people
Amelia Boynton Robinson 1911 2015 Script error: No such module "flag". Selma Voting Rights Movement activist and early leader
Dorothy Height 1912 2010 Script error: No such module "flag". activist and advocate for African-American women
Bayard Rustin 1912 1987 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activist
Jo Ann Robinson 1912 1992 Script error: No such module "flag". Montgomery bus boycott activist
Harry Hay 1912 2002 Script error: No such module "flag". early leader in American LGBT rights movement, founder Mattachine Society
Rosa Parks 1913 2005 Script error: No such module "flag". NAACP official, activist, Montgomery bus boycott inspiration
Daisy Bates 1914 1999 Script error: No such module "flag". organizer of the Little Rock Nine school desegregation events
Viola Desmond 1914 1965 Script error: No such module "flag". Black Canadian civil rights activist and businesswoman
George Raymond 1914 1999 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activist, head of the Chester, Pennsylvania branch of the NAACP
Claude Black 1916 2009 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activist
Frankie Muse Freeman 1916 2018 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights attorney, first woman appointee to United States Commission on Civil Rights
Fannie Lou Hamer 1917 1977 Script error: No such module "flag". leader in the American Civil Rights Movement; co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and Freedom Democratic Party
Marie Foster 1917 2003 Script error: No such module "flag". voting rights activist, a local leader in the Selma Voting Rights Movement
Humberto "Bert" Corona 1918 2001 Script error: No such module "flag". labor and civil rights leader
Gordon Hirabayashi 1918 2012 Script error: No such module "flag". Japanese-American civil rights hero
Nelson Mandela 1918 2013 Script error: No such module "flag". statesman, leading figure in Anti-Apartheid Movement
Jackie Robinson 1919 1972 Script error: No such module "flag". Broke Major League Baseball's color line with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
Fred Korematsu 1919 2005 Script error: No such module "flag". Japanese internment resister during World War II
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 1920 1975 Template:Country data Bangladesh Father of the nation of Bangladesh.
James Farmer 1920 1999 Script error: No such module "flag". Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leader and activist
Golden Frinks 1920 2004 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights organizer in North Carolina, field secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Betty Friedan 1921 2006 Script error: No such module "flag". writer, women's rights activist, feminist
Joseph Lowery 1921 2020 Script error: No such module "flag". SCLC leader and co-founder, activist
Del Martin 1921 2008 Script error: No such module "flag". co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis, first social and political organization for lesbians in the US
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley 1921 2003 Script error: No such module "flag". held an open casket funeral for her son, Emmett Till; speaker, activist
Whitney M. Young, Jr. 1921 1971 Script error: No such module "flag". Executive director of National Urban League, adviser to U.S. presidents
Charles Evers 1922 2020 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activist
Fred Shuttlesworth 1922 2011 Script error: No such module "flag". clergyman, activist, SCLC co-founder, initiated the Birmingham Movement
Clara Luper 1923 2011 Script error: No such module "flag". sit-in movement leader in Oklahoma, activist
James Baldwin 1924 1987 Script error: No such module "flag". essayist, novelist, public speaker, SNCC activist
Phyllis Lyon 1924 2020 Script error: No such module "flag". co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis, first social and political organization for lesbians in the U.S.
C.T. Vivian 1924 2020 Script error: No such module "flag". student civil rights leader, SNCC and SCLC activist
Lenny Bruce 1925 1966 Script error: No such module "flag". free speech advocate, comedian, political satirist
Medgar Evers 1925 1963 Script error: No such module "flag". NAACP official in the Mississippi Movement
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga 1924 2018 Script error: No such module "flag". activist in Japanese-American redress movement
Frank Kameny 1925 2011 Script error: No such module "flag". gay rights activist
Malcolm X 1925 1965 Script error: No such module "flag". author, speaker, activist, inspiration
Ralph Abernathy 1926 1990 Script error: No such module "flag". activist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official
Reies Tijerina 1926 2015 Script error: No such module "flag". Hispano activist
Jackie Forster 1926 1998 Script error: No such module "flag". English lesbian rights activist
Hosea Williams 1926 2000 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activist, SCLC organizer and strategist
Cesar Chavez 1927 1993 Script error: No such module "flag". Chicano activist, organizer, trade unionist
Coretta Scott King 1927 2006 Script error: No such module "flag". SCLC leader, activist
James Forman 1928 2005 Script error: No such module "flag". SNCC official and civil rights activist
James Lawson 1928 2024 Script error: No such module "flag". American minister and activist, SCLC's teacher of nonviolence in civil rights movement
Elie Wiesel 1928 2016 Script error: No such module "flag". writer, Holocaust survivor, Jewish rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 1968 Script error: No such module "flag". SCLC co-founder/president/chairman, activist, author, speaker
Edison Uno 1929 1976 Script error: No such module "flag". leader for Japanese-American civil rights and redress after World War II
Wyatt Tee Walker 1928 2018 Script error: No such module "flag". activist and organizer with NAACP, CORE, and SCLC
Dorothy Cotton 1930 2018 Script error: No such module "flag". SCLC official, activist, organizer, and leader
Dolores Huerta 1930 Script error: No such module "flag". labor and civil rights activist, initiator, organizer
Harvey Milk 1930 1978 Script error: No such module "flag". politician, gay rights activist, and leader for the LGBT community
Rupert Richardson 1930 2008 Script error: No such module "flag". 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
Charles Morgan, Jr. 1930 2009 Script error: No such module "flag". attorney, established principle of "one man, one vote"
Desmond Tutu 1931 2021 Script error: No such module "flag". anti-apartheid organizer, advocate, first black archbishop of Cape Town
Barbara Gittings 1932 2007 Script error: No such module "flag". lesbian rights activist
Dick Gregory 1932 2017 Script error: No such module "flag". free speech advocate, civil rights activist, comedian
Lola Hendricks 1932 2013 Script error: No such module "flag". activist, local leader in Birmingham Movement
Miriam Makeba 1932 2008 Script error: No such module "flag". singer, anti-apartheid activist
Víctor Jara 1932 1973 Script error: No such module "flag". teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist[2] political activist
Andrew Young 1932 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activist, SCLC executive director
Stanley Branche 1933 1992 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activitst, founder of the Committee For Freedom Now
James Meredith 1933 Script error: No such module "flag". independent student leader and self–starting Mississippi activist
Violeta Zúñiga 1933 2019 Script error: No such module "flag". human rights activist
Roy Innis 1934 2017 Script error: No such module "flag". activist, longtime leader of CORE
Jane Goodall 1934 Script error: No such module "flag". scientist, activist, ecologist
Gloria Steinem 1934 Script error: No such module "flag". writer, activist, feminist
Bob Moses 1935 2021 Script error: No such module "flag". leader, activist, and organizer in '60s Mississippi Movement
James Bevel 1936 2008 Script error: No such module "flag". organizer and Direct Action leader, SCLC's main strategist, movement initiator, and movement director
Barbara Jordan 1936 1996 Script error: No such module "flag". legislator, educator, civil rights advocate
Richard C. Boone 1937 2013 Script error: No such module "flag". civil Rights activist SCLC, Chaplain, Major US Army
Charles Sherrod 1937 2022 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activist, SNCC leader
Fela Kuti 1938 1997 Script error: No such module "flag". multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick
Diane Nash 1938 Script error: No such module "flag". SNCC and SCLC activist and official, strategist, organizer
Claudette Colvin 1939 Script error: No such module "flag". Montgomery bus boycott pioneer, independent activist
Jack Herer 1939 2010 Script error: No such module "flag". pro-hemp activist, speaker, organizer, author
Julian Bond 1940 2015 Script error: No such module "flag". activist, politician, scholar, NAACP chairman
Prathia Hall 1940 2002 Script error: No such module "flag". SNCC activist, a leading speaker in the civil rights movement
Bernard Lafayette 1940 Script error: No such module "flag". SCLC and SNCC activist, organizer, and leader
Muhammad Yunus 1940 Template:Country data Bangladesh Bangladeshi 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.}
John Lewis 1940 2020 Script error: No such module "flag". Nashville Student Movement and SNCC activist, organizer, speaker, congressman
Stokely Carmichael 1941 1998 Script error: No such module "flag". SNCC and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker
Jesse Jackson 1941 Script error: No such module "flag". civil rights activist, politician
James Orange 1942 2008 Script error: No such module "flag". SCLC activist and organizer, a voting rights movement leader, trade unionist
Gerd Fleischer 1942 Script error: No such module "flag". human rights activist
Peter Tosh 1944 1987 Script error: No such module "flag". Marijuana legalization activist, promoter of the rights of Africans within Africa as well as Black people across the diaspora, reggae musician.
Marsha P. Johnson 1945 1992 Script error: No such module "flag". Gay liberation activist, STAR co-founder, AIDS activist with ACT UP
Heather Booth 1945 Script error: No such module "flag". SNCC activist, men’s movement organizer, and founder of the Midwest Academy
Angelina Atyam 1946 Script error: No such module "flag". human rights activist for the Aboke abductions
Dick Oosting 1946 Script error: No such module "flag". human rights lawyer and activist
Dana Beal 1947 Script error: No such module "flag". pro-hemp activist, organizer, speaker, initiator
Saïd Bouziri 1947 2009 Template:FR Tunisian human rights and immigrant rights activist; co- founder of several human rights groups[6]
Ashok Row Kavi 1947 Script error: No such module "flag". LGBT rights activist, gay rights pioneer, founder of Humsafar Trust
Benjamin Chavis 1948 Script error: No such module "flag". 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
Fred Hampton 1948 1969 Script error: No such module "flag". NAACP youth leader and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker
Sylvia Rivera 1951 2002 Script error: No such module "flag". Gay liberation and transgender rights activist, STAR house co-founder
Cedric Prakash 1951 Script error: No such module "flag". Jesuit Priest, Human Rights Activist, Organizer, Journalist, and Speaker
Judy Shepard 1952 Script error: No such module "flag". gay rights activist, public speaker
Barbara May Cameron 1954 2002 Script error: No such module "flag". advocate for the rights of Native Americans, lesbians, and women
Bobby Sands 1954 1981 Template:IRE Hunger striker for better conditions for Irish prisoners in British prisons
Herman Baca 1943 Script error: No such module "flag". Chicano activist in California and member of Committee on Chicano Rights
Al Sharpton 1954 Script error: No such module "flag". clergyman, activist, media
Will Roscoe 1955 Script error: No such module "flag". gay rights activist
Rigoberta Menchú 1959 Script error: No such module "flag". indigenous rights leader, co-founder of Nobel Women's Initiative
Eulalie Nibizi 1960 Script error: No such module "flag". human rights activist, trade unionist
Steven Goldstein 1962 Script error: No such module "flag". gay rights advocate, political activist
Chee Soon Juan 1962 Script error: No such module "flag". politician, former political prisoner, democracy and human rights activist
Manasi Pradhan 1962 Script error: No such module "flag". women's rights activist, founder of Honour for Women National Campaign
Céline Narmadji 1964 Script error: No such module "flag". human and women's rights activist, active in improving conditions for the local population
Deborah Parker 1970 Script error: No such module "flag". 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 Script error: No such module "flag". Executive Director, Amnesty International Argentina
Gloria Casarez 1971 2014 Script error: No such module "flag". Latina lesbian civil rights leader and LGBT activist in Philadelphia
Harish Iyer 1979 Script error: No such module "flag". gender and sexuality rights activist, campaigner against child sexual abuse and for animal rights
Kate Lynn Blatt 1981 Script error: No such module "flag". 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
Edvin Kanka Ćudić 1988 Script error: No such module "flag". human rights activist, founder and coordinator of UDIK in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Malala Yousafzai 1997 Script error: No such module "flag". advocate for education for girls, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate

See also

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References

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