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Social Reformers and Revolutionaries

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See also Dissident Freedom Activists Worldwide

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

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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

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Gracchus Babeuf, (1760-1797) French early revolutionary socialist and one of the leaders of the Conspiracy of the Equals
Mikhail Bakunin, (1814-1876) Russian anarchist
Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977) was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
Andrés Bonifacio, (1863-1897) Filipino freemason and revolutionary leader
William Booth (1829-1912) British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, (1825-1921) US abolitionist, feminist, clergy
Albert Brisbane (1809–1890) an American utopian socialist, chief popularizer of the theories of Charles Fourier in the US
Josephine Elizabeth Butler (1828-1906) Victorian era British feminist who was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes.

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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

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

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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
Margaret Fuller, (1810-1850) US critic, social reformer, writer

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Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Emma Goldman, (1869-1940) US anarchist
Horace Greeley, (1811-1872) US newspaper editor, reformer
Germaine Greer, (du Feu) born 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

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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

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

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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

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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

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Malcolm X, (1925-1965) US political activist
Nestor Makhno (1888-1934), the military leader of the Free Territory and the originator of The Platform (one of the branches of anarchist thought)
Nelson Mandela
Karl Marx, (1818-1883) German socialist leader, philosopher
Giuseppe Mazzini, (1805-1872) Genoese propagandist, revolutionary
Mary Ann McCracken (1770-1866)
Hồ Chí Minh (1890-1969) Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman
Lucretia Mott, (1793-1880) US social reformer

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

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Daniel Ortega (1945-____) Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician

P

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

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José Rizal, (1861-1896), Filipino writer
Jeanne-Marie Roland, (1754-1793) French revolutionary
Dora Russell, (1894-1986) English writer, activist

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Margaret Sanger, (1883-1966) US nurse, social reformer
Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner
Florida 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
Gloria Steinem, (1934-____) US feminist, journalist, lecturer
Andries Stockenström (1792-1864) Earlier South African campaigner for reform
Lucy Stone, (1818-1893) US suffragist, feminist

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Luis Taruc, (1913-2005), Filipino reformer
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

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Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp (1747-1812) Pioneer Dutch missionary and one of the earliest protagonists for racial equality in South Africa.

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

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Victor S. Yarros, (1865-1956) anarchist
Whitney M. Young Jr., (1921-1971) US civil rights leader

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