American Social Leaders and Activists, Second Edition features more than A-to-Z entries on important American activists and social leaders from colonial times to the present.

Table of Contents

• A
• Abbott, Grace
• Abernathy, Ralph
• Addams, Jane
• Adler, Felix
• Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary
• Alcott, Amos Bronson
• Alcott, William Andrus
• Alinsky, Saul
• Allen, Richard
• Ameringer, Oscar
• Ames, Jessie
• Andrews, Fannie Fern
• Andrews, John
• Andrews, Stephen Pearl
• Anthony, Susan B.
• Aquash, Anna Mae
• Avery, Rachel Foster
• B
• Baez, Joan
• Baker, Ella
• Balch, Emily Greene
• Baldwin, Roger Nash
• Banks, Dennis
• Barnard, Henry
• Barton, Clara
• Beard, Mary
• Beecher, Catharine
• Beecher, Henry Ward
• Bellamy, Edward
• Berkman, Alexander
• Berrigan, Daniel and Philip
• Bethune, Mary McLeod
• Blackwell, Alice Stone
• Blackwell, Antoinette
• Blackwell, Elizabeth and Emily
• Blatch, Harriot Stanton
• Bloomer, Amelia
• Bond, Julian
• Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons
• Boulding, Kenneth
• Bowditch, Henry
• Bridges, Harry
• Brower, David
• Brown, John (abolitionist)
• Brown, Lester
• Brownmiller, Susan
• Bruner, Joseph
• Butler, Nicholas Murray
• C
• Carmichael, Stokely
• Carter, Hodding
• Catt, Carrie Chapman
• Cervantes, Maggie
• Chavez, Cesar
• Child, Lydia Maria
• Chomsky, Noam
• Cleaver, Eldridge
• Cloud, Henry Roe
• Coffin, William Sloane, Jr.
• Commoner, Barry
• Cox, Harvey
• Coxey, Jacob
• Croly, Herbert
• D
• Darrow, Clarence
• Davis, Angela
• Day, Dorothy
• De Leon, Daniel
• Debs, Eugene V.
• Dees, Morris
• Delany, Martin R.
• Dellinger, David
• Deloria, Vine, Jr.
• DePugh, Robert
• Dewey, John
• Dix, Dorothea
• Donnelly, Ignatius
• Douglass, Frederick
• Dow, Neal
• Dubinsky, David
• DuBois, W. E. B.
• Duke, David
• E
• Eastman, Charles Alexander
• Eastman, Crystal
• Eastman, Max
• Echohawk, John
• Edelman, Marian Wright
• Eliot, Charles W.
• Ely, Richard
• Evers, Medgar
• Evers-Williams, Myrlie
• F
• Farmer, James
• Father Coughlin
• Firestone, Shulamith
• Flores Magón, Ricardo
• Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
• Foster, William Zebulon
• Fox, Matthew
• Friedan, Betty
• Fuller, Kathryn
• Fuller, Margaret
• Fuller, R. Buckminster
• G
• Galarza, Ernesto, Jr.
• Gale, William Potter
• Garnet, Henry Highland
• Garrison, William Lloyd
• Garvey, Marcus
• George, Henry
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
• Goldman, Emma
• Gompers, Samuel
• Gonzales, Corky
• Goodman, Paul
• Graham, Sylvester
• Green, William
• Grimké, Angelina and Sarah Moore
• Grimké, Charlotte Forten and Francis James
• Gutiérrez, José Angel
• Guttmacher, Alan
• H
• Hall, Gus
• Hamer, Fannie Lou
• Hamilton, Alice
• Harper, Ida Husted
• Harrington, Michael
• Harris, LaDonna
• Hayden, Tom
• Haywood, William D.
• Hernandez, Aileen Clarke
• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
• Hill, Joe
• Hillman, Sidney
• Hine, Lewis
• Hoffa, Jimmy
• Hoffman, Abbie
• Hooks, Benjamin L.
• Hostos, Eugenio María de
• Howe, Julia Ward
• Huerta, Dolores
• I
• Ingersoll, Robert Green
• Innis, Roy
• Ireland, Patricia
• Irons, Martin
• Itliong, Larry
• J
• Jackson, Helen Hunt
• Jackson, Jesse
• K
• Kameny, Franklin
• Keller, Helen
• Kelley, Florence
• Kellogg, John Harvey
• Kellogg, Paul
• Kellor, Frances
• King, Coretta Scott
• King, Martin Luther, Jr.
• Kramer, Larry
• L
• Ladd, William
• Lathrop, Julia
• Lease, Mary Elizabeth
• Lens, Sidney
• Lewis, John
• Lewis, John L.
• Limbaugh, Rush
• Linus Pauling, social activism of
• Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice
• Lovejoy, Elijah
• Lundy, Benjamin
• Lynd, Staughton
• M
• Malcolm X
• Mann, Horace
• McDowell, Mary
• McNickle, D’Arcy
• Means, Russell
• Meany, George
• Meredith, James
• Merton, Thomas
• Mfume, Kweisi
• Milk, Harvey
• Millett, Kate
• Montezuma, Carlos
• Morgan, Robin
• Moses, Robert Parris
• Mother Jones
• Mott, Lucretia
• Muir, John
• Muñoz Rivera, Luis
• Murray, Philip
• Muste, A. J.
• N
• Nader, Ralph
• Nation, Carry
• Nearing, Scott
• Newton, Huey P.
• Noyes, John Humphrey
• O
• O’Leary, Jean
• Oppenheimer, J. Robert
• Ortiz, Alfonso
• Owen, Robert
• P
• Paine, Thomas
• Parks, Rosa
• Paul, Alice
• Payne, Roger
• Peltier, Leonard
• Penn, William
• Phillips, Wendell
• Pierce, William Luther
• Powderly, Terence
• R
• Randolph, A. Philip
• Reed, John
• Reich, Wilhelm
• Reuther, Walter
• Rickard, Clinton
• Riis, Jacob
• Robeson, Paul
• Rockwell, George Lincoln
• Roosevelt, Eleanor
• Rubin, Jerry
• Rudd, Mark
• Ruffin, Edmund
• Rush, Benjamin
• Rustin, Bayard
• S
• Sanger, Margaret
• Savio, Mario
• Scheffer, Victor
• Schlafly, Phyllis
• Schneiderman, Rose
• Seale, Bobby
• Sharpton, Al
• Shays, Daniel
• Sinclair, Upton
• Spingarn, Joel
• Spock, Benjamin
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
• Steinem, Gloria
• Stephens, Uriah
• Still, William
• Stone, I. F.
• Stone, Lucy
• Strossen, Nadine
• T
• Tappan, Arthur and Lewis
• Tenayuca, Emma
• Terry, Randall
• Thomas, Norman
• Tijerina, Reies
• Tourgée, Albion
• Townsend, Francis E.
• Trochmann, John
• Truth, Sojourner
• Tubman, Harriet
• V
• Villard, Fanny
• Villard, Oswald
• Vorse, Mary Heaton
• W
• Wald, Lillian
• Walker, David
• Walling, William
• Washington, Booker T.
• Wattleton, Faye
• Wayland, J. A.
• Welch, Robert, Jr.
• Weld, Theodore Dwight
• Wells, Ida B.
• Wheeler, Wayne
• White, Walter
• Wilkins, Roy
• Willard, Frances
• Woodhull, Victoria
• Wright, Fanny
• Y
• Young, Whitney, Jr.
• Selected Bibliography