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Frederick Douglass 1818–1895Civil Rights & Social ReformFormer slave who became a leading abolitionist, orator, and advocate for equal rights.
Helen Keller 1880–1968Civil Rights & Social ReformDeafblind author and lecturer who became the leading American advocate for blind and disabled people.
Jane Addams 1860–1935Civil Rights & Social ReformSocial worker and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who founded Hull House and the settlement house movement.
Coretta Scott King 1927–2006Civil Rights & Social ReformCivil rights organizer, peace activist, and founder of the King Center
Betty Friedan 1921–2006Civil Rights & Social ReformAuthor of The Feminine Mystique and founding president of the National Organization for Women.
Stokely Carmichael 1941–1998Civil Rights & Social ReformThe SNCC chairman who made Black Power a national slogan
Ralph Nader b. 1934Civil Rights & Social ReformConsumer advocate whose auto-safety campaign produced federal vehicle standards and a public-interest lobbying network.
Daniel Ellsberg 1931–2023Civil Rights & Social ReformLeaked the Pentagon Papers and put the government's own account of Vietnam on the record.
Emma Goldman 1869–1940Civil Rights & Social ReformAnarchist orator and editor whose free-speech and birth-control agitation led to her 1919 deportation.