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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.
Harriet Tubman
African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)
Sojourner Truth
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist (1797–1883)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist (1815–1902)
Cesar Chavez
Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined leftism with Catholic social teaching.
Robert Anton Wilson
American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic (1932-2007)
Amelia Bloomer
Women's rights activist (1818–1894)
Harry Everett Smith
American visual artist, experimental filmmaker, record collector, bohemian, mystic, and largely self-taught student of anthropology (1923–1991)
Tamanend
Tamanend ("the Affable"; ), historically also known as Taminent, Tammany, Saint Tammany or King Tammany, was the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle (Pùkuwànku) clan of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signing the founding peace treaty with William Penn.
Eddie Buczynski
Wiccan and gay rights activist (1947-1989)