Peter Dreier's Social Justice Hall of Famers

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Key Activities
Lifespan
Answer
Anti-Monopoly Reform, Cleveland Mayor
1854-1911
Tom Johnson
Wisconsin Governor & Senator
1855-1925
Robert La Follette, Sr.
Organized American Railway Union
1855-1926
Eugene Debs
Supreme Court Justice
1856-1941
Louis Brandeis
Scopes trial
1857-1938
Clarence Darrow
President
1858-1919
Theodore Roosevelt
Fought Child Labor
1859-1932
Florence Kelley
Pragmatist Philosopher and Educator
1859-1952
John Dewey
First Socialist in Congress
1860-1929
Victor Berger
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
1860-1935
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hull House
1860-1935
Jane Addams
"The Shame of the Cities"
1866-1936
Lincoln Steffens
Governor of California (1911-1917)
1866-1945
Hiram Johnson
"The Souls of Black Folk"
1868-1963
W. E. B. DuBois
Industrial Workers of the World
1869-1928
William "Big Bill" Haywood
Physician, occupational health
1869-1970
Alice Hamilton
Anarchist and feminist
1869-1940
Emma Goldman
Sociologist and photographer
1874-1940
Lewis Hine
New York Senator (1927-1949)
1877-1953
Robert F. Wagner
"The Jungle"
1878-1968
Upton Sinclair
Physicist
1879-1955
Albert Einstein
Birth Control
1879-1966
Margaret Sanger
United Mine Workers of America
1880-1969
John L. Lewis
Educator and disability rights activist
1880-1968
Helen Keller
Secretary of Labor
1880-1965
Frances Perkins
President
1882-1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Labor organizer
1882-1972
Rose Schneiderman
NYC Mayor
1882-1947
Fiorello La Guardia
ACLU
1884-1981
Roger Baldwin
First Lady
1884-1962
Eleanor Roosevelt
Minister and presidential candidate
1884-1968
Norman Thomas
Clergyman and pacifist activist
1885-1967
A.J. Muste
Quaker and suffragist
1885-1977
Alice Stokes Paul
Labor organizer
1887-1946
Sidney Hillman
Vice President
1888-1965
Henry Wallace
Labor unionist and civil rights
1889-1979
Asa Philip Randolph
Chief Supreme Court Justice
1891-1974
Earl Warren
Minnesota governor
1891-1936
Floyd Olson
Catholic Worker
1897-1980
Dorothy Day
Athlete, singer, actor, and activist
1898-1976
Paul Robeson
Supreme Court Justice
1898-1980
William O. Douglas
Labor activist
1901-1990
Harry Bridges
Harlem Renaissance
1902-1967
Langston Hughes
New York congressperson
1902-1954
Vito Marcantonio
Civil rights
1903-1999
Virginia F. Durr
Civil rights
1903-1986
Ella Baker
"Green Eggs and Ham"
1904-1991
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Educator and socialist
1905-1990
Myles Horton
"Factories in the Field"
1905-1980
Carey McWilliams
Supreme Court Justice
1906-1997
William J. Brennan
Key Activities
Lifespan
Answer
Rabbi and Civil Rights activist
1907-1972
Abraham Heschel
"Silent Spring"
1907-1964
Rachel Carson
United Automobile Workers
1907-1970
Walter Reuther
Investigative journalist
1907-1989
I. F. Stone
Supreme Court Justice
1908-1993
Thurgood Marshall
President
1908-1973
Lyndon B. Johnson
Economist
1908-2006
John Kenneth Galbraith
"Rules for Radicals"
1909-1972
Saul Alinsky
Civil Rights
1912-1987
Bayard Rustin
1950s Gay Liberation Pioneer
1912-2002
Harry Hay
Oral historian
1912-2008
Studs Terkel
Environmentalist
1912-2000
David Brower
"This Land is Your Land"
1912-1967
Woody Guthrie
"Death of a Salesman"
1915-2005
Arthur Miller
Urbanist
1916-2006
Jane Jacobs
"The Power Elite"
1916-1962
C. Wright Mills
Biologist and ecologist
1917-
Barry Commoner
Civil rights
1917-1977
Fannie Lou Hamer
Integrated baseball
1919-1972
Jackie Robinson
Folk singer
1919-
Pete Seeger
Labor leader & AFSCME president
1919-1981
Jerry Wurf
Feminist, lawyer, and congressperson
1920-1998
Bella Abzug
"The Feminine Mystique"
1921-2006
Betty Friedan
"A People's History of the United States"
1922-2010
Howard Zinn
Minister and activist
1924-2006
William Sloane Coffin
"By Any Means Necessary"
1925-1965
Malcolm X
Grape boycott
1927-1993
Cesar Chavez
"The Other America"
1928-1989
Michael Harrington
Activist and educator
1928-
James Lawson
Linguist and social critic
1928-
Noam Chomsky
"I Have a Dream"
1929-1968
Martin Luther King
"Dump Johnson"
1929-1980
Allard Lowenstein
Mayor of Castro Street
1930-1978
Harvey Milk
Massachusetts senator
1932-2009
Ted Kennedy
Consumer Advocate
1934-
Ralph Nader
Feminist
1934-
Gloria Steinem
Journalist
1934-
Bill Moyers
Educator and SNCC leader
1935-
Bob Moses
"Port Huron Statement"
1939-
Tom Hayden
Edmund Pettis Bridge
1940-
John Lewis
"Diamonds and Rust"
1941-
Joan Baez
"Blowin' in the Wind"
1941-
Bob Dylan
"Nickeled and Dimed"
1941-
Barbara Ehrenreich
Rainbow Coalition
1941-
Jesse Jackson
Boxing
1942-`
Muhammad Ali
Tennis
1943-
Billie Jean King
Minnesota Senator
1944-2002
Paul Wellstone
"Born in the USA"
1949-
Bruce Springsteen
"Fahrenheit 911"
1954-
Michael Moore
"Angels in America"
1956-
Tony Kushner
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