Activist celebrities
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Malala Yousafzai (Malālah Yūsafzay: Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rig
A member of the Guilford Four, along with Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson. They were falsely convicted of the Guilford Pub bombings in 1974. Their story was later adapted into the movie In the Name of the Father (1993).
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the B
Indira Goswami (Asamiya: ইন্দিৰা গোস্বামী) (14 November 1942 – 29 November 2011), known by her pen name Mamoni Raisom Goswami and popularly as Mamoni Baideo, was an Assamese editor, poet, professor, scholar and writer.
Amy Kirby, were radical Hicksite Quakers from Rochester, New York, involved in the struggles for abolitionism and women’s rights. Among the first believers in Spiritualism, they helped to associate the young religious movement with the political idea
Albert Battel (21 January 1891 – 1952) was a German Wehrmacht army lieutenant and lawyer recognized for his resistance during World War II to the Nazi plans for the 1942 liquidation of the Przemyśl Jewish ghetto. He was posthumously recognized as
Catherine Engelbrecht was born in Richmond, Texas. She is the co-owner of a high-precision oilfield machine shop started in 1994 by her and her husband, Bryan. Prior to 2008, Catherine had little involvement in the political arena. She was what coul
Clyde Kennard (June 12, 1927 – July 4, 1963) was an American civil rights pioneer and martyr from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and a Korean War veteran. In the 1950s, he attempted several times to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern College
Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (9 February 1854 – 10 August 1929) was a Dutch Physician, women’s suffrage activist, and inventor. Born in the small village of Sappemeer in the Netherlands, she had many accomplishments in different fields such as women’s
Jyotirao Govindrao Phule (11 April 1827 – 28 November 1890) was an Indian activist, thinker, social reformer, writer and theologist from Maharashtra. He and his wife, Savitribai Phule, were pioneers of women’s education in India. His work extended
Yigal Amir (Hebrew: יִגְאָל עָמִיר; born May 23, 1970) is an Israeli assassin and activist who was responsible for the assassination of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. The assassination took place on November 4, 1995 at the concl