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French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)

United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)

United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)

abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)

United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964)

United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915)

United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887)

United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)

United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)

United States civil rights worker in Mississippi; was killed by a sniper (1925-1963)

United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)

United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)

United States feminist (1860-1935)

Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415)

United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)

United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)

militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)

United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)

United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)

leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975)

United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)

Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)

United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)

United States feminist (1885-1977)

United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976)

Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498)

United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902)

United States feminist (born in 1934)

United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)

United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)

United States abolitionist (1786-1865)

United States social reformer who proposed an old-age pension sponsored by the federal government; his plan was a precursor to Social Security (1867-1960)

United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)

United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)

United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822)

Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305)

English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)

United States abolitionist (1803-1895)

English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797)

United States civil rights leader (1901-1981)

United States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898)

English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)

United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)

United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

someone who contests an outcome (of a race or an election etc.)

someone who imputes guilt or blame

someone who engages in debate

one who denies

a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions

someone given to disputes over words

someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take

a disputant who quarrels

a disputant who advocates reform

a reformer who favors abolishing slavery

a social reformer who advocates birth control and family planning

a 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people

a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups

someone who participates in a public display of group feeling

someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument

a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution

a supporter of feminism

someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle

a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)

a militant reformer

someone with an aggressively negative attitude

a reformer who believes in passive resistance

someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas

a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument

one who stonewalls or refuses to answer or cooperate; someone who delays by lengthy speeches etc.

an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer

someone who argues noisily or angrily