Addams, Jane (Cedarville)
1931 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Hull-House
Famous Activists from United States
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Alinsky, Saul (Chicago)
The father of community organizing -
Anthony, Susan B. (Adams)
The women's rights activist on the one-dollar coin -
Baez, Joan (Staten Island)
Folk singer who did "Diamonds & Rust" -
Baraka, Amiri (Newark)
Author of the 1964 play Dutchman -
Berrigan, Daniel (Virginia)
The anti-war priest hunted by the FBI -
Berrigan, Philip (Two Rivers)
Blood-pouring, missile-hammering ex-priest -
Bethune, Mary McLeod (Mayesville)
The founder of the National Council for Negro Women -
Biafra, Jello (Boulder)
The frontman for the punk group Dead Kennedys -
Bly, Nellie (Cochran's Mills)
Woman journalist who went around the world in 1889 -
Bono, Chaz (Los Angeles)
The only child of Sonny and Cher -
Breitbart, Andrew (Los Angeles)
The right-wing activist who brought down Rep. Anthony Weiner -
Brown, Antoinette (Henrietta)
The first clergywoman in the United States -
Buck, Pearl S. (Hillsboro)
The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Good Earth -
Bunche, Ralph (Detroit)
The first black American to win the Nobel Peace Prize -
Burke, Tarana (The Bronx)
The woman credited with starting the Me Too movement -
Byrne, Ethel Higgins (Corning)
Margaret Sanger’s sister and co-founder of the first birth control clinic -
Chavez, Cesar (Yuma)
Leader of the 1960s grape boycott -
Cleaver, Eldridge (Wabbaseka)
The Black Panther who wrote Soul on Ice -
Coffin, William Sloane (New York City)
The Yale chaplain who opposed the U.S. war in Vietnam -
Cox, Laverne (Mobile)
Sophia Burset on Orange Is the New Black -
Davis, Angela (Birmingham)
The black feminist/communist on the Most Wanted list in 1970 -
Davis, Ossie (Cogdell)
Husband of Ruby Dee and veteran of stage and screen -
Day, Dorothy (Brooklyn)
Laywoman who co-founded The Catholic Worker -
Dee, Ruby (Cleveland)
Veteran actress and wife of Ossie Davis -
Dix, Dorothea (Hampden)
The 19th-century woman who improved treatment of the insane -
Dolezal, Rachel (Lincoln County)
The white woman who pretended to be black -
Du Bois, W.E.B. (Great Barrington)
Author of The Souls of Black Folk -
Dworkin, Andrea (Camden)
Author of Woman Hating -
Ellsberg, Daniel (Chicago)
The whistleblower who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971 -
Evers, Medgar (Decatur)
Assassinated Mississippi civil rights leader -
Farrow, Ronan (New York City)
Mia Farrow's son who's on MSNBC -
Fonda, Jane (New York City)
Outspoken Oscar-winning actress and Ted Turner's ex-wife -
Friedan, Betty (Peoria)
The author of 'The Feminine Mystique' -
Fuller, Margaret (Cambridge)
The feminist who wrote 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' -
Ginsberg, Allen (Newark)
The Beat-era poet who wrote Howl -
Giovanni, Nikki (Knoxville)
The poet who wrote "Ego-Tripping" -
Goldberg, Whoopi (New York City)
Star of the Hollywood comedy Sister Act -
Gray, Fred D. (Montgomery)
The lawyer for Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks -
Hampton, Fred (Maywood)
The young Black Panther murdered by Chicago police in 1969 -
Harrelson, Woody (Midland)
The guy from Cheers who played Larry Flynt in the movies -
Hayden, Tom (Detroit)
The California political activist once married to Jane Fonda -
Hoffman, Abbie (Worcester)
The yippie who wrote Steal This Book -
hooks, bell (Hopkinsville)
Black feminist critic of "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" -
Howe, Julia Ward (New York City)
The abolitionist who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic -
Keller, Helen (Tuscumbia)
The blind and deaf woman who became a famous activist -
Kennedy, Michael
The Kennedy who died while skiing -
Kevorkian, Jack (Pontiac)
The euthanasia advocate known as "Dr. Death" -
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Atlanta)
The civil rights hero who said "I have a dream" -
LaDuke, Winona (Los Angeles)
Native American activist who was a vice presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000 -
Lovelace, Linda (The Bronx)
The star of the sexually explicit film Deep Throat -
Mankiller, Wilma
The first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation -
Mann, Horace (Franklin)
The "Father of American Education" -
Milk, Harvey (Woodmere)
The gay San Francisco city official gunned down in 1978 -
Mott, Lucretia (Nantucket Island)
The Quaker minister who was the first to sign the Seneca Falls women's rights declaration -
Nader, Ralph (Winsted)
Author of Unsafe at Any Speed and perennial presidential candidate -
Nation, Carry (Garrard County)
Hatchet-wielding champion of alcohol prohibition -
Newton, Huey (Monroe)
Co-founder of the Black Panthers -
Norquist, Grover (Sharon)
The lobbyist who initiated the GOP's anti-tax pledge -
Odetta (Birmingham)
The fierce black folk singer known for "Oh, Freedom" -
O'Hair, Madalyn Murray (Pittsburgh)
Head of American Atheists -
Otero-Warren, Nina
The early New Mexico activist who helped win the vote for women -
Phyllis McAlpin Stewart (St. Louis)
The Republican woman who helped defeat the ERA in the 1970s -
Plessy, Homer (New Orleans)
Namesake of the U.S. court case Plessy v. Ferguson -
Rich, Adrienne (Baltimore)
The feminist-lesbian poet who wrote Diving Into the Wreck -
Robeson, Paul (Princeton)
The actor, singer and activist known for Othello and Show Boat -
Rustin, Bayard
Organizer behind Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington -
Sanger, Margaret (Corning)
Co-founder of what became Planned Parenthood -
Seale, Bobby (Liberty)
Co-founder, with Huey Newton, of the Black Panther Party -
Sharpton, Al (Brooklyn)
New York's African-American preacher, activist and presidential candidate -
Sheehan, Cindy
The "Peace Mom" who protested against the Iraq War -
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy (Brookline)
The founder of the Special Olympics -
Snowden, Edward
The dude who leaked top-secret info about U.S. domestic surveillance -
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (Johnstown)
Co-founder of the Seneca Falls Convention -
Steinem, Gloria (Toledo)
The feminist who co-founded Ms. magazine -
Stone, Lucy (West Brookfield)
The abolitionist and women's suffragist who started 'The Woman's Journal' -
Treadwell, Timothy (Long Island)
Bear-loving mauling victim from the documentary Grizzly Man -
Truth, Sojourner (Hurley)
The freed slave and activist who said "Ain't I a Woman?" -
Wells, Ida B. (Holly Springs)
The woman journalist who campaigned against lynching -
West, Cornel (Tulsa)
The African American Studies professor who wrote Race Matters -
Woodhull, Victoria Claflin (Homer)
The first woman candidate for U.S. President -
Woodson, Carter G. (New Canton)
The "Father of Black History"