Jane Addams
This founder of Hull House fought for the rights of poor and immigrant workers.
Madeha al Ajroush
A Saudi “Freedom Rider”, she fights for women’s rights in Islam.
Tammy Baldwin
This Wisconsin senator fights for universal health care and gay rights.
Michael Bloomberg
This former Mayor of NYC advocates gun control, as well as bans on smoking and soft drinks.
Margaret Chan
Director of World Health Organization, she fights to improve health care throughout world.
Eugene Debs
This socialist and labor union leader ran for President.
John Dewey
This educational philosopher advocated for many reforms still in practice today.
W.E.B. DuBois
This African American writer advocated for early civil rights practices in the U.S.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
This "rebel girl" supported the IWW and socialist movement.
Emma Goldman
A self-avowed anarchist.
Samuel Gompers
He was an American labor union leader who fought for worker's rights.
William "Big Bill" Haywood
He was a union leader in the IWW.
Mother Jones (Mary Harris)
She fought for miners’ rights and against child labor.
Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones
He was the Mayor of Toldeo....
Hellen Keller
Famous for overcoming her disability, she was also a socialist and women’s suffrage worker.
Florence Kelley
This social reformer worked on behalf of women's rights and child laborers.
Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette
He was a Wisconsin political leader and labor refomer.
Aldo Leopold
A naturalist, he supported preservation of the environment.
Bill McKibben
He advocates recognition and response to climate change.
John Muir
He fought to preserve the environment and to set aside wilderness areas
Ralph Nader
Consumer protection, environmental issues.
Carrie Nation
Prohibitionist who used radical tactics for her cause
Libertarian Kentucky Senator. Limit government intervention in people's lives.
"Liberty thrives when government is small."
Gifford Pinchot
Nation’s first professional forester. Conservationist.
Michael Pollan or Morgan Spurlock
These men address the influence of business on food production
Pope Francis
This leader and reformer in the Catholic Church addresses poverty, worldwide.
Diane Ravitch
She is a modern education reformer.
Jacob Riis
This photographer devoted is career to capturing the conditions of urban poor.
Marco Rubio
Tea Party Senator interested in immigration reform, limiting size of government
Paul Ryan
Wisconsin Congressman, advocating to limit the size of government and balance the budget.
Margaret Sanger
She advocated for women's rights and birth control.
Rose Schneiderman
Jewish Labor Activict
Upton Sinclair
Wrote about poor conditions in meatpacking facilities, socialist.
Billy Sunday
Promoted American morality, former baseball player
Ida Tarbell
A leading muckraker who took on John D. Rockefeller.
Mary Church Terrell
Head of National Association of Colored Women, fought against lynching.
Neil deGrasse Tyson or Bill Nye
Science education and allocating more government money to research and technology.
Booker T. Washington
African American civil rights and equality.
Feminist and celebrity activist for women's rights.
" We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.”
Ida B. Wells
African American writer, co-founder of NAACP, fought against lynching.
Victoria Woodhull
Women’s political activist
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani girl targeted by Taliban for advocating educating girl.
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