Bella Abzug, feminist and civil rights advocate, embodied many Americans’ discontent with the political establishment in the tumultuous Vietnam War era. She gained notoriety as one of the most colorful and controversial House Members during the 1970s.
Born in the colonial British Empire, Elizabeth Furse became an anti-apartheid activist, an advocate for migrant farm workers and Native Americans, and founder of a peace institute.
In 1965, after Alabama state troopers attacked voting rights marchers on what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” Sister Antona Ebo and other nuns from the Franciscan Sisters of Mary traveled to Selma and joined the march to Montgomery when it resumed two weeks later.
Native American activist and dancer
One of the Little Rock Nine children who de-segregated their Arkansas schools and author of A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
One of the Little Rock Nine children who de-segregated their Arkansas schools, she later founded and served as the Editor-in-Chief for Computers in Industry, an international journal of computer science and engineering.
One of the Little Rock Nine children who de-segregated their Arkansas schools, she later served in Clinton Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Workforce Diversity in the Department of the Interior.
One of the Little Rock Nine children who de-segregated their Arkansas schools, Wair later worked in the East St. Louis school system for 28 years
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Captain responsible for the recruitment of African American female soldiers during World War II, lawyer and civil rights activist
African-American civil rights activist