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Social Reformers and Human Rights 20th-Century Figures Clear all filters

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Alicia Garza

American civil rights activist

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Amal Clooney

British-Lebanese human rights lawyer

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Amanda Nguyen

American civil rights activist

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Angela Davis

American scholar and civil rights activist

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Anita Hill

American lawyer and academic

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Bärbel Bohley

visual artist and civil-rights activist

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Ben Crump

American civil rights lawyer

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Bryan Stevenson

American public-interest lawyer

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David Boies

American lawyer

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DeRay Mckesson

American civil rights activist

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Desmond Mpilo Tutu

Anglican cleric and human-rights leader

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Geoffrey Robertson

Australian-British human rights lawyer

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Gloria Allred

American civil rights lawyer

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Kimberlé Crenshaw

American legal scholar and civil rights advocate

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Leymah Gbowee

Liberian peace activist

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Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani education activist

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María Corina Machado

Venezuelan public leader and civil society advocate

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Miriam Makeba

singer and performer whose institutional record includes anti-apartheid advocacy and exile

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Nadia Murad

Iraqi Yazidi human rights advocate

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Narges Mohammadi

Iranian human rights advocate

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Nawal El Saadawi

writer, physician, and activist

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

attorney, anti-apartheid political leader, political prisoner, and President of South Africa

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Oleksandra Matviichuk

Ukrainian human rights lawyer

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Shirin Ebadi

Iranian human rights lawyer

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