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Frederick Douglass 1818–1895Civil Rights & Social ReformFormer slave who became a leading abolitionist, orator, and advocate for equal rights.
Ida B. Wells 1862–1931Civil Rights & Social ReformJournalist and anti-lynching crusader whose investigative reporting exposed racial terror in the South.
William Lloyd Garrison 1805–1879Civil Rights & Social ReformEditor of The Liberator and founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Gloria Steinem b. 1934Civil Rights & Social ReformWriter and organizer who became one of the most visible leaders of second-wave feminism.
Emma Goldman 1869–1940Civil Rights & Social ReformAnarchist orator and editor whose free-speech and birth-control agitation led to her 1919 deportation.
Roy Wilkins 1901–1981Civil Rights & Social ReformRan the NAACP for 22 years and bet everything on courts, lobbying and legislation.