American Biographies: American Social Leaders and Activists
American Biographies: American Social Leaders and Activists
Editor/Author
Hamilton, Neil A.
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Facts On File
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4381-7472-3
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count:
78
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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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