Category
page 1Activists from Detroit

Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".
Daniel Ellsberg
American whistleblower (1931–2023)
Marlo Thomas
American actress, producer, and social activist
Mary Wilson
American singer (1944–2021)
Walter Reuther
labor union leader and progressive activist (1907–1970)
Betty Shabazz
American educator and wife of Malcolm X (1934–1997)
Gary Yourofsky
animal rights activist
Viola Liuzzo
American activist and murder victim (1925–1965)
Daayiee Abdullah
American homosexual Muslim activist
Ruth Ellis
LGBT rights activist (1899–2000)

Gerald L. K. Smith
American politician and clergyman (1898–1976)
Huwaida Arraf
Palestinian-American lawyer and activist
Leonard Woodcock
American diplomat (1911–2001)
Rebecca Kiessling
anti-abortion activist and attorney
Laurance Labadie
American anarchist
Lillian Ascough
US suffragette
John Tanton
American ophthalmologist, white nationalist and anti-immigration activist (1934–2019)
Emma Didlake
American military personnel
adrienne maree brown
writer

Greta Berlin
human rights activist
Nikki Beare
American feminist, journalist and lobbyist