Jane Addams -- Ai Weiwei -- Muhammad Ali -- Annan Kofi -- Susan B. Anthony -- Ella Baker --Benazir Bhutto -- Simon Bolivar -- Louis D. Brandeis -- David Ross Brower -- John Brown -- Pearl S. Buck -- Rachel Carson -- Jimmy Carter --Cesar Estrado Chavez -- Michael Collins -- Dalai Lama -- Charles Darwin -- Eugene V. Debs -- John Dewey -- Frederick Douglass -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Medgar Wiley Evers -- Henry Ford -- Francis I -- Betty Friedan -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- Galileo -- Indira Gandhi -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Leymah Gbowee -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman --Mikhail Gorbachev -- Albert Gore, Jr. -- Che Guevara -- Johannes Gutenberg -- Abbie Hoffman -- Jesse Jackson -- Thomas Jefferson -- Joan of Arc -- Saint John Paul II -- Tawakkul Karman -- Florence Kelley -- John F. Kennedy -- John Maynard Keynes -- Billie Jean King -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- John Lennon -- John L. Lewis -- Abraham Lincoln -- Liu Xiaobo -- Martin Luther -- Malcolm X -- Nelson Mandela -- Thurgood Marshall -- Harvey Milk -- Michael Moore -- Lucretia Mott -- John Muir -- A. J. Muste -- Ralph Nader -- Barak Obama -- George Orwell -- Rosa L. Parks -- Frances Perkins -- Wendell Phillips -- Homer Plessy -- A. Philip Randolph -- Paul Robeson -- Jackie Robinson -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Bayard Rustin -- Oscar Arias Sanchez -- Margaret Sanger -- Kailash Satyarthi -- Dred Scott -- Pete Seeger -- Upton Sinclair -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lincoln Steffens -- Gloria Steinem -- I. F. Stone -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Blessed Mother Teresa -- Margaret Thatcher -- Norman Thomas -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Desmond Tutu -- William Tyndale -- Voltaire -- Lech Walesa -- William Wallace -- Earl Warren -- George Washington -- Cornel West -- Elie Wiesel -- Malala Yousafzai -- Muhammad Yunus.
Summary:
Contains brief biographies of 101 social reformers, political activists, and revolutionaries.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.