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Jane Addams
American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
Upton Sinclair
American writer (1878–1968)
William Jennings Bryan
American politician (1860–1925)
Tecumseh
Tecumseh ( ; March 9, 1768October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in battle during the War of 1812, he became a folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history.
Jeannette Rankin
American congresswoman for Montana (1880-1973)
Henry Ward Beecher
American clergyman and activist (1813–1887)
Carrie Chapman Catt
American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
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American physician (1852–1943)
Amelia Bloomer
Women's rights activist (1818–1894)
Frances Willard
American temperance activist and suffragist (1839–1898)
Mary Edwards Walker
American feminist and doctor (1832–1919)
Nellie Tayloe Ross
First woman state governor in the U.S.
Rebecca Latimer Felton
American politician (1835-1930)
Fanny Crosby
19th century Christian hymnist
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
American writer
Wendell Phillips
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Alice Stone Blackwell
American feminist, journalist and human rights advocate (1857-1950)
Carrie Nation
American temperance advocate (1846–1911)
James Middleton Cox
American politician and Governor of Ohio (1870–1957)
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
American minister (1825–1921)
Sylvester Graham
American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer
Hattie Caraway
United States Senator from Arkansas and first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, first woman to preside over the senate, first woman to chair a senate committee, and first woman to preside over a senate hearing (1878–1950)
William Gibbs McAdoo
American politician (1863-1941)
Anna Howard Shaw
American physician and activist (1847-1919)
Theodore Parker
American transcendentalist, abolitionist and reforming minister (1810-1860)
Tenskwatawa
Tenskwatawa (; also called Tenskatawa, Tenskwatawah, Tensquatawa or Lalawethika) (January 1775 – November 1836) was a Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. He was a younger brother of Tecumseh, a leader of the Shawnee. In his early years Tenskwatawa was given the name Lalawethika ("He Makes a Loud Noise" or "The Noise Maker"), but he changed it around 1805 and transformed himself from a hapless, alcoholic youth into a spiritual leader.
George W. Norris
American politician (1861–1944)
Josephus Daniels
American diplomat and newspaper editor (1862–1948)
Kathleen Norris
American writer (1880-1966)
Aimee Semple McPherson
Canadian-American evangelist and media celebrity (1890-1944)
Heber J. Grant
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1856-1945)
Billy Sunday
American evangelist and baseball player (1862-1935)
Lyman Beecher
American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founder (1775–1863)
John Neal
American writer (1793–1876)
Andrew Volstead
American politician (1859-1947)
Little Turtle
Chief of the Miami people (c. 1747 – July 14, 1812)
Joseph Bates
American sailor, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1792–1872)
Neal S. Dow
American Prohibition advocate and politician (1804–1897)
Ann Preston
American physician
Hallie Quinn Brown
American writer and activist (1849–1949)
Hannah Whitall Smith
American writer (1832–1911)
Caroline Still Anderson
American physician, educator, and activist (1848–1919)
Emily Howland
American philanthropist
Theodore Dwight Weld
American abolitionist (1803–1895)
Graceanna Lewis
American ornithologist, naturalist, illustrator and abolitionist (1821–1912)
Alice Bunker Stockham
American obstetrician, gynecologist and activist (1833–1912)
William Hodges Mann
American politician (1843-1927)
Luke Lea
American politician, born 1879 (1879–1945)
Addie L. Ballou
American poet, feminist, suffragist, artist (1837-1916)
Stuart Hamblen
American entertainer, radio singer, songwriter, and presidential candidate (1908–1989)
John Haynes Holmes
American activist and minister (1879–1964)
Lydia Folger Fowler
American-born British physician
Wesley Livsey Jones
American politician (1863–1932)
Lewis W. Green
American minister and university president
Smith W. Brookhart
American politician (1869–1944)
Charles Chiniquy
Canadian priest (1809-1899)
James Forten
African-American abolitionist, pioneer of civil rights
Amasa Walker
U.S. Representative and economist (1799-1875)
Arthur Tappan
American abolitionist (1786-1865)