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Erica Jong (born 1942)
poet, women's rights activist
- Barnard College, Columbia University
Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021)
psychiatrist, gynaecologist, politician, activist
- Columbia University, Cairo University
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
diplomat, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, journalist, peace activist, human rights activist, columnist
- New School, Allenswood Boarding Academy
E. P. Thompson (1924-1993)
historian of Modern Age, historian, journalist, biographer, labor historian, peace activist, anti-nuclear weapons activist
- University of Cambridge, Dragon School
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
pastor, preacher, civil rights advocate, human rights activist, peace activist, pacifist, politician
- Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary
Václav Havel (1936-2011)
playwright, politician, director, poet, film director, human rights activist, dissident, essayist, philosopher, opinion journalist
- Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Theatre, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944)
poet, polo player, autobiographer, LGBTQ rights activist, playwright, feminist
- New York University, University of Florida
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
journalist, philosopher, women's rights activist, autobiographer, social reformer, social critic, suffragette, peace activist, human rights activist, political theorist, sociologist
- Rockford University