List of People for Research

Choose a person to research from this list.  If you want to choose a person not on this list, it must be cleared with your teacher first. Be prepared to make a case for your person as someone who has made a commitment to fighting social injustice, not just made a contribution to some charitable cause.

Adams, Abigail

Addams, Jane

Annan, Kofi

Anthony, Susan B.

Angelou, Maya

Aung Sung Suu Kyi

Barton, Clara

Bono

Brace, Charles Loring

Braille, Louis

Bridges, Ruby

Brown, John

Carter, Jimmy

Chief Joseph

Dallaire, Romeo

The Dalai Lama (the 14^th)

Douglass, Frederick

DuBois, W.E.B.

Ebadi, Shirin

Edelman, Marian Wright

Gandhi, Mahatma

Gates, Bill

Hughes, Langston

Jefferson, Thomas

Keller, Helen

Kennedy, John F.

King, Corretta Scott

King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther

Lincoln, Abraham

Ling, Lisa

Luther, Martin

Macy, Ann (Annie Sullivan)

Mandela, Nelson

Marshall, Judge Thurgood

Mother Teresa

Nightingale, Florence

O’Conner, Sandra Day

Owens, Jesse

Parks, Rosa

Princess Diana

Robinson, Jackie

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Schindler, Oskar

Shaw, Robert Gould

Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy

Sinclair, Upton

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

TenBoom, Corrie

Truth, Sojourner

Tubman, Harriet

Tutu, Desmond

Washington, Booker T.

Wiesel, Elie

Wiesenthal, Simon

Winfrey, Oprah