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Simone de Beauvoir
French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)
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Henry Ward Beecher
United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)
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Julian Bond
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)
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John Brown
abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
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Rachel Louise Carson
United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964)
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Anthony Comstock
United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915)
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Dorothea Lynde Dix
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)
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Frederick Douglass
United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)
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Medgar Wiley Evers
United States civil rights worker in Mississippi; was killed by a sniper (1925-1963)
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James Leonard Farmer
United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
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Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)
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William Lloyd Garrison
United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
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Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
United States feminist (1860-1935)
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John Huss
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)
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Jesse Louis Jackson
United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
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Martin Luther King Jr.
United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
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Malcolm Little
militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)
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James Howard Meredith
United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
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Lucretia Coffin Mott
United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)
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Elijah Muhammad
leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975)
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Carry Amelia Moore Nation
United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
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Robert Owen
Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
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Rosa Parks
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)
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Alice Paul
United States feminist (1885-1977)
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Paul Bustill Robeson
United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976)
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Girolamo Savonarola
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)
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902)
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Gloria Steinem
United States feminist (born in 1934)
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Lucy Stone
United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
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Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
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Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
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Arthur Tappan
United States abolitionist (1786-1865)
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Francis Everett Townsend
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)
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Sojourner Truth
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)
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Harriet Tubman
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)
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Nat Turner
United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)
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Denmark Vesey
United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822)
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Sir William Wallace
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)
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Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)
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Theodore Dwight Weld
United States abolitionist (1803-1895)
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John Wilkes
English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797)
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Roy Wilkins
United States civil rights leader (1901-1981)
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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard
United States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898)
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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)
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Frances Wright
United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)
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Whitney Moore Young Jr.
United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
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contester
someone who contests an outcome (of a race or an election etc.)
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accuser
someone who imputes guilt or blame
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arguer, debater
someone who engages in debate
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denier
one who denies
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hairsplitter
a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions
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logomach, logomachist
someone given to disputes over words
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obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, resister, thwarter
someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take
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quarreler, quarreller
a disputant who quarrels
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crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer
a disputant who advocates reform
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abolitionist, emancipationist
a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
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birth-control campaigner, birth-control reformer
a social reformer who advocates birth control and family planning
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Chartist
a 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people
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civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker
a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
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demonstrator, protester
someone who participates in a public display of group feeling
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devil's advocate
someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument
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dry, prohibitionist
a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
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conservationist, environmentalist
someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution
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feminist, libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist
a supporter of feminism
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flower child, hippie, hippy, hipster
someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
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freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel
a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
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activist, militant
a militant reformer
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naysayer
someone with an aggressively negative attitude
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non-resistant, passive resister
a reformer who believes in passive resistance
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preservationist
someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas
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confuter, disprover, rebutter, refuter
a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument
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stonewaller
one who stonewalls or refuses to answer or cooperate; someone who delays by lengthy speeches etc.
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Utopian
an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer
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wrangler
someone who argues noisily or angrily