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Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
playwright, political scientist, historian, journalist, peace activist, labor historian, human rights activist, film director, activist
- New York University, Columbia University
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
historian, philosopher, sociologist, social worker, human rights activist, photographer, poet, autobiographer, opinion journalist, teacher, journalist, art historian, economist
- Fisk University, Harvard University
Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
activist, politician
- Antioch University, Antioch College
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
essayist, autobiographer, diarist, literary critic, publisher, women's rights activist
- King's College London
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
librarian, poet, women's rights activist, essayist, teacher, feminist, philosopher
- Columbia University, Hunter College
Alan Cumming (born 1965)
actor, comedian, film director, voice actor, character actor, stage actor, television actor, film actor, composer, film producer, LGBTQ rights activist, translator
- Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist
Janet Mock (born 1983)
journalist, LGBTQ rights activist, television director, television actor, podcaster, film director
- New York University, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa