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SCLC activist and organizer, a voting rights movement leader, trade unionist Gerd Fleischer: 1942 Norway: human rights activist Peter Tosh: 1944 1987 Jamaica: Marijuana legalization activist, promoter of the rights of Africans within Africa as well as Black people across the diaspora, reggae musician. Marsha P. Johnson: 1945 1992 United States
Eric Garris (born 1953) – American activist, founding webmaster of antiwar.com; Martin Gauger (1905–1941) – German jurist and pacifist; Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) – Liberian peace activist, organizer of women's peace movement in Liberia, awarded 2011 Nobel Peace Prize; Aviv Geffen (born 1973) – Israeli singer and peace activist
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.
Rosa Parks was an Alabama native and a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activist who fought for civil rights in the United States. ... but the most famous one is ...
Rehana Fathima (born 1986) – women's rights activist; Ruchira Gupta (born 1964) – journalist and activist. She is the founder of Apne Aap, a non-governmental organization that works for women's rights and the eradication of sex trafficking; Nazli Gegum (1874–1968) – Indian girl education activist
Although not often highlighted in American history, before Rosa Parks changed America when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in December 1955, 19th-century African-American civil rights activists worked strenuously from the 1850s until the 1880s for the cause of equal treatment.
Millicent Baxter (1888–1984) – peace activist; Kate Dewes (born 1954) – disarmament activist, pacifist; Kae Miller (1910–1994) – peace activist, pacifist, mental health advocate. [15] Margaret Sievwright (1844–1905) – feminist, peace activist; Miriam Soljak (1879–1971) – New Zealand feminist, rights activist and pacifist
Indian social activist and chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala, an institution that assists trafficked women, girls and transgender people in finding shelter, giving education and employment: 1940–1999: Julia Kristeva: France, Bulgaria: 1941 – [35] 1940–1999: Winona LaDuke: United States: 1959 – Ecofeminist [17] 1940–1999 ...