| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Susan B. Anthony |
Activist |
15-Feb-1820 |
13-Mar-1906 |
Women's rights advocate |
| Arthur Ashe |
Tennis |
10-Jul-1943 |
6-Feb-1993 |
First black man to win Wimbledon |
| Joan Baez |
Singer/Songwriter |
9-Jan-1941 |
|
Diamonds and Rust |
| Dennis Brutus |
Poet |
28-Nov-1924 |
26-Dec-2009 |
Sirens, Knuckles and Boots |
| Amy Carter |
Relative |
19-Oct-1967 |
|
Daughter of President Jimmy Carter |
| Ward Churchill |
Activist |
2-Oct-1947 |
|
Compared WTC victims to Adolf Eichmann |
| William L. Clay |
Politician |
30-Apr-1931 |
|
Congressman from Missouri, 1969-2001 |
| Peter Cundall |
TV Personality |
1-Apr-1927 |
|
Host of Gardening Australia, 1989-2008 |
| Kim Dae-Jung |
Head of State |
3-Dec-1925 |
18-Aug-2009 |
South Korean President, 1998-2003 |
| Dorothy Day |
Activist |
8-Nov-1897 |
29-Nov-1980 |
Founder of the Catholic Worker movement |
| Daniel Ellsberg |
Government |
7-Apr-1931 |
|
Pentagon Papers source |
| Walter E. Fauntroy |
Activist |
6-Feb-1933 |
|
Congressman from DC, 1971-91 |
| Peter Fonda |
Actor |
23-Feb-1940 |
|
Easy Rider |
| Whoopi Goldberg |
Actor |
13-Nov-1955 |
|
Sister Act |
| Dick Gregory |
Activist |
12-Oct-1932 |
|
Autobiography: NIGGER! |
| Daniel Hamburg |
Politician |
6-Oct-1948 |
|
Congressman from California, 1993-95 |
| Daryl Hannah |
Actor |
3-Dec-1960 |
|
Splash |
| Charles A. Hayes |
Politician |
17-Feb-1918 |
8-Apr-1997 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1983-93 |
| Ken Hechler |
Politician |
20-Sep-1914 |
|
Congressman from West Virginia, 1959-77 |
| Chris Hedges |
Journalist |
18-Sep-1956 |
|
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning |
| John Hume |
Politician |
18-Jan-1937 |
|
Northern Ireland pol, Nobel recipient |
| Peter H. Irons |
Activist |
11-Aug-1940 |
|
A People's History of the Supreme Court |
| Martin Luther King |
Activist |
15-Jan-1929 |
4-Apr-1968 |
Pacifist civil rights activist |
| Albert Lutuli |
Activist |
c. 1898 |
21-Jul-1967 |
ANC president, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Emmeline Pankhurst |
Activist |
14-Jul-1857 |
14-Jun-1928 |
Militant suffragette |
| Alice Paul |
Activist |
11-Jan-1885 |
9-Jul-1977 |
Suffragette |
| Pope Pius VIII |
Religion |
20-Nov-1761 |
30-Nov-1830 |
Pope for 20 months, maybe poisoned |
| Bobby Rush |
Politician |
23-Nov-1946 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 1st |
| Bayard Rustin |
Activist |
17-Mar-1910 |
24-Aug-1987 |
Organized the 1963 March on Washington |
| José Serrano |
Politician |
24-Oct-1943 |
|
Congressman, New York 16th |
| Cindy Sheehan |
Activist |
10-Jul-1957 |
|
Peace Mom |
| Henry David Thoreau |
Author |
12-Jul-1817 |
6-May-1862 |
Walden |
| Cornel West |
Activist |
2-Jun-1953 |
|
Prominent blackademic |
