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Amelia Boynton Robinson Facts

Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1911 – August 26, 2015) was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. In 1984, she became found

Aaron Dixon Facts

Aaron Dixon (born January 2, 1949) is an American activist and a former captain of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party for its initial four years. In 2006, he ran for the United States Senate in Washington state on the Green Party ticket.

Mahasweta Devi Facts

Mahasweta Devi (Bengali: মহাশ্বেতা দেবী Môhashsheta Debi) (born 14 January 1926) is an Indian social activist and writer.

Rani Lakshmibai Facts

Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi (19 November 1828 – 18 June 1858), born as Manikarnika and renamed Lakshmibai  pronunciation  in 1842 after her marriage, was the queen of the Maratha-ruled Jhansi State, situated in the north-central part of India.

Bernadette Rebienot Facts

Bernadette was born in Libreville, Gabon Bernadette Rebienot is a spiritual leader. Through her work as an indigenous elder stateswoman, Bernadette gained international recognition as a member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmother

Robert F. Williams Facts

Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author, best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and early 1960s. At a time when rac

Bryan Weaver Facts

Uzi Even Facts

Uzi Even (Hebrew: עוזי אבן‎, born 18 October 1940) is an Israeli professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Tel Aviv University and a former politician well known for being the first openly gay member of the Knesset.

Asmaa Mahfouz Facts

Asmaa Mahfouz (Arabic: أسماء محفوظ‎, born 1 February 1985) is an Egyptian activist and one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement. She has been credited by journalist Mona Eltahawy and others with helping to spark mass uprising thr

Anna Mae Aquash Facts

Annie Mae Aquash (Mi’kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975, Mi’kmaq) was a First Nations activist from Nova Scotia, Canada, who moved to Boston in the 1960s and joined American Indians in education and resistance. She was part

Margaret Sanger Facts

Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term “birth control”

Masaru Emoto Facts

Masaru Emoto (江本 勝, Emoto Masaru, July 22, 1943 – October 17, 2014) was a Japanese author, researcher and entrepreneur, who claimed that human consciousness has an effect on the molecular structure of water. Emoto’s conjecture evolved over th