Social Reformers and Revolutionaries

Definitions:

• Reformer - a disputant who advocates reform
• Revolutionary - a person engaged in political revolution.

Bold links are to Geni Profiles.

A

• Samuel Adams (1722-1803) US revolutionary, statesman
• Jane Addams (1860-1935) US social worker, suffragist
• Saul Alinsky, (1909-1972) US political activist
• Susan B. Anthony. (1820-1906) US social reformer, suffragist
• Mary Austin, (1868-1934) US writer, suffragist

B

• Mikhail Bakunin, (1814-1876) Russian anarchist
• Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977) was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
• William Booth (1829-1912) British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army
• Antoinette Brown Blackwell, (1825-1921) US abolitionist, feminist, clergy
• Josephine Elizabeth Butler (1828-1906) Victorian era British feminist who was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes.

C

• Maria Weston Chapman, (1806-1885) US abolitionist, editor

D

• Georges Jacques Danton, (1759-1794) French revolutionary leader, orator
• Angela Davis, (1944-____) US political activist, revolutionary, author
• Dorothy Day, (1897-1980) US editor, humanitarian, women's rights advocate
• Eugene Debs, (1855-1926) US labor organizer
• W. E. B. Du Bois, (1868-1963) US writer, social reformer

E

• Marian Wright Edelman, (1939-____) US social reformer, lawyer, author

F

• John Fairbairn (1794 – 1864) - newspaper proprietor, educator, financier and politician of the Cape Colony.
• Susan Faludi, (1959-____) US writer, feminist
• Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham, (1815-1864) US social reformer, lecturer
• Betty Friedan, (1921-2006) US feminist, activist, writer
• Fuller, (1810-1850) US critic, social reformer, writer

G

• Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
• Emma Goldman, (1869-1940) US anarchist
• Horace Greeley, (1811-1872) US newspaper editor, reformer
• Germaine Greer, (1939-____) Australian born reformer, author, educator
• Dick Gregory, (1932-____) US comedian, author, political activist
• Angelina Grimke, (1805-1979) US abolitionist, women's rights advocate
• Che Guevara, (1928-1967) Argentine revolutionary

H

• Clara McBride Hale, (1905-1992) US social reformer
• Lewis Hine (1874-1940) American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States
• Abbie Hoffman, (1936-1989) US political activist
• Julia Ward Howe, (1819-1910) US social reformer
• Dolores Huerta, (1930-____) US Chicana activist, labor leader

J

• Jesse Jackson, (1941-____) US civil rights leader, minister, politician
• Sonia Johnson, () US activist, religious leader

K

• Sally Kempton, (1943-____) US writer, feminist
• Ellen Key, (1849-1926) Swedish writer, feminist
• Coretta Scott King, (1927-2006) US civil rights activist
• Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
• Maggie Kuhn, (1905-1995) US activist, social worker

L

• Belva Lockwood, (1830-1917) US social reformer, lawyer
• Clare Boothe Luce, (1905-1987) US dramatist, author, politician, diplomat
• Martin Luther, (1483-1546) German religious reformer

M

• Malcolm X, (1925-1965) US political activist
• Nelson Mandella
• Karl Marx, (1818-1883) German socialist leader, philosopher
• Giuseppe Mazzini, (1805-1872) Genoese propagandist, revolutionary
• Mary Ann McCracken (1770-1866)
• Lucretia Mott, (1793-1880) US social reformer

N

• Carry Nation, (1846-1911) US social reformer
• Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910) English nurse, reformer
• Emmeline Pankhurst(1858-1928) English suffragist

O

P

• Rosa Parks (McCauley) (1913-2005) US civil rights leader
• Sir John Philips (1775-1851)

Q

R

• Jeanne-Marie Roland, (1754-1793) French revolutionary
• Dora Russell, (1894-1986) English writer, activist

S

• Margaret Sanger, (1883-1966) US nurse, social reformer
• Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner
• Scott-Maxwell, (1883-1979) US writer, suffragist, psychologist
• Hannah Whitall Smith, (1832-1911) US evangelist, reformer, suffragist, author
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (1815-1902) US social reformer, feminist
• Steinem, (1934-____) US feminist, journalist, lecturer
• Andries Stockenström (1792-1864) Earlier South African campaigner for reform
• Lucy Stone, (1818-1893) US suffragist, feminist

T

• Mary Church Terrell, (1863-1954) US social reformer
• Arnold Toynbee, (1852-1883) English economist, reformer
• Leon Trotsky, (1879-1940) Russian communist revolutionary
• Sojourner Truth, (1797?-1883) US abolitionist, reformer
• Harriet Tubman, (c.1820-1913) US abolitionist, emancipator

U

V

W

• Lech Walesa, (1943-____) Polish labor activist, politician
• William Wilberforce English politician and leader of the movement to abolish slavery.
• Roy Wilkins, (1901-1981) US social reformer, civil rights leader
• Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797) English writer, women's rights activist
• Victoria Claffin Woodhull, (1838-1927) US reformer

X-Y-Z

• Whitney M. Young, Jr., (1921-1971) US civil rights leader

Resources

• http://pinterest.com/morleymoore/social-reformers/