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Educators in Reform & Rights

92 people, across 8 fields.

George Washington Carver 1864–1943Environment, Agriculture & FoodAgricultural scientist whose research on crop rotation and alternative crops transformed Southern farming.MTMamie Till-Mobley 1921–2003Civil Rights & Social ReformInsisted the country look at what was done to her son, then taught school and campaigned for fifty years.Barbara Gittings 1932–2007Civil Rights & Social ReformStruck homosexuality from the psychiatric manual and put gay books on library shelves.Sequoyah 1770–1843Indigenous Leaders & Native NationsCherokee scholar who created the Cherokee syllabary, enabling mass literacy and strengthening Cherokee political and cultural life.James Beard 1903–1985Environment, Agriculture & FoodCookbook author and teacher whose advocacy helped define a distinct modern American culinary tradition.Ed Roberts 1939–1995Civil Rights & Social ReformBuilt the independent living movement and made disability a civil rights question rather than a medical one.