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Aruna Roy (born 26 June 1946) is an Indian political and social activist who founded the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) (“Workers and Peasants Strength Union”) along with Shankar Singh, Nikhil Dey and many others.
Khaled Mohamed Saeed (Arabic: خالد محمد سعيد 27 January 1982 – 6 June 2010) was a young Egyptian man whose death under police custody in the Sidi Gaber area of Alexandria on 6 June 2010 helped incite the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 .
Geronimo Pratt (born Elmer Pratt, September 13, 1947 – June 2, 2011), also known as Geronimo ji-Jaga and Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt, was a high-ranking member of the Black Panther Party.
Isaac Post, 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 ide
Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was an American women’s suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president o
Jessie Yasmin Duarte (born 19 September 1953) is a South African politician and spokesperson for the African National Congress. A long time anti-apartheid activist, she has served variously as a special assistant to Nelson Mandela, a member of the pr
Yara Yavelberg (May 7, 1943 – August 20, 1971) was a Brazilian psychologist and university lecturer, member of the Brazilian resistance movement against the Brazilian military government. She was believed to have committed suicide in Salvador, Bahi
Anna Hutsol (Anna Vasylivna Hutsol; Ukrainian: Ганна Гуцол; born 16 October 1984) is a Ukrainian activist and founder of FEMEN.
Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born Jesse Louis Burns; October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow
Claude William Black, Jr. (November 28, 1916 – March 13, 2009) was an American Baptist minister and political figure. He was born the son of local Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters vice president Claude, Sr. and housewife Cora in the then-segrega