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John Orman

Orman wrote Helen Keller Speaks, a dramatic play and reading capturing the social activist views of Helen Keller based on her documented speeches and letters between 1913 to 1919.

Kit Thomas

As a social activist and philanthropist, Thomas has supported numerous charities, environmental initiatives and grass roots community organizations, including the Global Security Institute, Global Green, the Jane Goodall Institute, and MusiCares.


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Aly Zaker

His wife Sara Zaker is also a media personality, entrepreneur and social activist in the country.

Amelia Stone Quinton

Amelia Stone Quinton (July 31, 1833 – June 23, 1926) was an American social activist and advocate for Native American rights.

Berkeley Carroll School

Maxine Greene - Educational philosopher, author, and social activist

Bruce Eriksen

Bruce Eriksen (March 22, 1928 – March 16, 1997) was an artist, social activist and founder of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA).

Cemetery of the Resurrection

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Catholic social activist recognized as a Servant of God

Communist Organization of Greece

People who collaborate with Drómos tis Aristerás include Mumia Abu-Jamal, political cartoonist Carlos Latuff, Communist Party of the Philippines leader Jose Maria Sison, and American historian, author, and social activist Max Elbaum.

Division of Mayo

Established in South Australian redistribution of 3 September 1984, the division is named for Helen Mayo, a social activist and the first woman elected to an Australian University Council.

Dolci

Danilo Dolci (1924-1997), Italian social activist, sociologist, popular educator and poet

Elizabeth Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), American social activist and abolitionist

English country dance

Social activist Mary Neal was one of the first to do so (she was principally known for her work in ritual dances), but folklorist Cecil Sharp was the best-known and most influential.

Fariba

Fariba Nejat (b. 1957), an Iranian-American community leader and social activist

Guntis Ulmanis

He retired from politics but became a social activist, founding the Guntis Ulmanis Fund, organizing the 2006 IIHF World Championship in Riga and heading the Riga Castle reconstruction council.

Hanna Krall

The book is about a Polish Jewish cardiologist and social activist, Marek Edelman, who was one of the founders of Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Combat Organization) and who took over its leadership after the head-commander Mordechai Anielewicz had perished.

Henriques Street

The street is the location of the Bernhard Baron House, the building where the well-known Jewish philanthropist and social activist Basil Henriques based his social club for young men for many years.

Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij

This company grew so fast, that in 1891, the HSM, aided by the social activist Daniel de Clercq, began the Haarlem society called De Ambachtsschool to unify various city efforts to start a vocational school in Haarlem, in order to satisfy their need for workers in the booming train business.

Jack London Lake

Jack London Lake was named in 1932 after American author, journalist, and social activist Jack London by Russian geologist P. Skornyakov.

John Bray

John Francis Bray (1809–1897), social activist and political economist

Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas

Juozas Tumas, also known by the pen name Vaižgantas (September 20, 1869 - April 29, 1933), was a prominent Lithuanian writer, Roman Catholic priest, social activist, literary historian, and one of the founders of the Party of National Progress.

Karl Kabasele

A social activist, he has travelled internationally to assist with relief activities after disasters including Grenada’s Hurricane Ivan (2004).

Karol Libelt

Karol Libelt (8 April 1807, Poznań, Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation - 9 June 1875, Brdowo) was a Polish philosopher, writer, political and social activist, social worker and liberal, nationalist politician, president of the PTPN.

Kunauli

Famous Playback Singer, Udit Narayan and Angika Language Scholar and social activist - Gorelal Manishi are among those few personalities who studied here and completed their SSC.

Lapsley

Michael Lapsley SSM (born 1949), South African Anglican priest and social activist

Leo Garoshka

Archimandrite Leo Garoshka, MIC (Belarussian: Leў Garoshka, born on 26 February 1911, Troschitsy, Grodno Region, Russian Empire - died on 8 August 1977, Paris, France) was a Belarusian Roman Catholic priest of the Eastern rite, religious and social activist and researcher of the history of religion in Belarus.

Lord Young

Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington (9 August 1915 – 14 January 2002), British sociologist, social activist and politician who coined the term "meritocracy"

M. N. Singaramma

M. N. Singaramma (1920–2006) was an eminent scholar, writer and social activist from Mandya in Karnataka, Southern India.

Manavata

Manavata (originally called Chaitanya Bharat Youth Association) was founded on 19 October 1991 by Srinivasa Chowdary Alluri, a social activist, in Lolla, a remote village in the Godavari belt of the Andhra Pradesh state in South India.

Mary Crawford Fraser

She was born in Italy to the American sculptor Thomas Crawford and Louisa Cutler Ward, and was the sister to novelist Francis Marion Crawford and the niece of Julia Ward Howe (the American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic").

Mee Sindhutai Sapkal

The film is a biographical account of Sindhutai Sapkal, a woman who became a social activist after a traumatic life.

Michealene Risley

Risley is noted for her recent work as the writer, producer and director for the film Tapestries of Hope, which follows social activist Betty Makoni in her efforts to help sexually abused young women in Zimbabwe through her foundation the Girl Child Network.

Mom Rinker's Rock

Here on May 15, 1847, the evening of a new moon, the American novelist, journalist, playwright, social activist, and labour organizer George Lippard was married to his frail young wife.

Norman Lear Center

The Center is named for benefactor Norman Lear, the social activist and philanthropist, and television producer, and was founded and is directed by Marty Kaplan, associate dean of the USC Annenberg School, who has been a political speechwriter, Hollywood studio executive, and screenwriter-producer.

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn

Born in London to a feminist/social activist mother and engineer father, Olga attended the North London Collegiate School, where she was a close friend of Marie Stopes.

Omar Khan

Omar Asghar Khan, Pakistani social activist, social scientist, economist and politician

Pallathadka

Harikumar Pallathadka, (Harikumar P in short) is a prominent Indian RTI (Known as FOI in the west) and Social Activist and also the Manager of AUP School Pallathadka.

Paul Goodman Changed My Life

Paul Goodman Changed My Life is the first documentary feature about Paul Goodman, social activist, lay psychologist, public intellectual and author best known for Growing Up Absurd.

Paul Jordan-Smith

He also enrolled part-time in graduate classes at the University of Chicago and developed a broad acquaintance among both literary and social activist circles, including lawyer Clarence Darrow, activist Emma Goldman, novelist John Cowper Powys, editor and publisher Margaret Anderson, writer Floyd Dell, Chicago Little Theatre founder Maurice Browne, and bookseller George Millard.

Rosemary Forbes Kerry

Rosemary Isabel Forbes (October 27, 1913 – November 14, 2002) was a nurse, social activist, and the mother of John Forbes Kerry, the 2004 candidate for President of the United States.

Ruby Sales

Ruby Sales (born July 8, 1948 in Jemison, Alabama) is an African-American social activist.

Salam Masdoosi

Saalam Bin Musdoos Al Masdoosi Al Muhannad aka Salam Masdoosi (1909-?) was an Islamic scholar, social activist, leader, guide and philanthropist from Mahbubnagar, A.P. India.

Sherman Wu

Sherman Hsiu-huang Wu (1937 – May 11, 2010) was an American social activist and a former professor, whose experiences at Northwestern University brought the issue of discrimination against Asian Americans to the fore.

Sri Ram Sena

On 12 October 2011 a few Sri Ram Sena activists allegedly assaulted senior lawyer and social activist Prashant Bhushan in his Supreme Court chamber.

Swarup

Anoop Swarup (born 1959), academic, social activist, ecologist, peace exponent

Thomas Kocherry

Father Thomas Kocherry is a social activist, priest, and lawyer who helped found the Kerala Swatantra Matsyathozhilali Federation.

Tulsi Ghat

Prof. Veer Bhadra Mishra, an environmentalist and social activist who is also the manager of Sankat Mochan Foundation lives at Tulsi Ghat.

Vahan Malezian

Vahan Malezian (Armenian Վահան Մալեզեան) (Born Sulina, Romania 1871 - died Nice, France 1966) was an Armenian writer, translator, poet, and social activist.

Walton-le-Dale

Joseph Livesey (1794–1884), temperance campaigner, social activist, writer, publisher and local cheese seller, was born here.