Baker, Ella Josephine

Profile. Ella Josephine Baker. Activist, Civil Rights Organizer, 1903–1986.

Organizing

Hatuey: 1512 – 2012

Profile. Hatuey.
Hatuey was a freedom fighter in the early 1500s who mobilized Caribbean islanders against invasion, theft, and murder by European conquistadors.

Jones, Mary Harris “Mother”

Profile. Mother Jones. Labor leader, Organizer, 1830—1930.

Labor

Joseph, Chief Hinmton Yalaktit

Profile. Chief Joseph Hinmton Yalaktit. Native American Leader, 1840—1904.

Native American, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Moore, Harry T. and Harriette Moore

Profiles. Harry T. and Harriette Moore.
The Moores, teachers and civil rights activists in Florida, were murdered when their home was bombed on Dec. 25, 1951.

Civil Rights Movements

Murray, Pauli: Fighting Jane Crow

Article. By Paula Giddings, The Nation, May 23, 1987.
Review of Pauli Murray’s autobiography, Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage (Harper & Row).

African American, Civil Rights Movements, Women's History

Parsons, Lucy Gonzales

Profile. Lucy Gonzales Parsons, Labor organizer, Orator, 1853–1942. By William Loren Katz.

African American, Labor, Native American, Women's History

Seeger, Pete

Profile. Pete Seeger. Folk singer, songwriter, activist, 1919-Present.

Art & Music

Wilson, Diane

Profile. Diane Wilson.
Shrimp Fisher, Environmentalist, Activist, 1948–Present.

Environment & Food, Organizing, Women's History