American workers' rights activists

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.

American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)

vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875

American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)

American writer and journalist (1941–2022)

American feminist

American public policy specialist and technology industry equity advocate

American musician

American labor organizer

1850–1933 American labor leader (1850–1933)

American software engineer, writer, labor activist, and corporate whistleblower

American politician (1875-1965)

American model

American labor leader (1953-2021)

American activist and human rights lawyer

American academic and cultural critic (1933–2021)