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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debra Katz | Debra S. Katz | null | null | American | civil rights and employment lawyer and a founding partner of Katz, Marshall & Banks in Washington, D.C. She is best known for representing alleged victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment, notably Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Vanessa Tyson, Chloe Caras, and accusers of Congressmen Pat Meehan and Eric Massa, and whistleblowers facing retaliation, including most recently Dr. Rick Bright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debra_Katz |
| Kerryn Phelps | Kerryn Lyndel Phelps | 1957 | n/a | Australian | medical practitioner, public health and civil rights advocate, medical educator and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerryn_Phelps |
| Alicia Garza | Alicia Garza | 1981 | n/a | American | civil rights activist and writer known for co-founding the international Black Lives Matter movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Garza |
| Jim Steyer | James Pearson Steyer | 1956 | n/a | American | children's advocate, civil rights attorney, professor and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steyer |
| Irwin Suall | Irwin Suall | 1924 | 1998 | American | socialist, union organizer, civil rights activist, investigator and researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Suall |
| Louis Marshall | Louis Marshall | 1856 | 1929 | American | corporate, constitutional and civil rights lawyer as well as a mediator and Jewish community leader who worked to secure religious, political, and cultural freedom for all minority groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Marshall |
| William Kunstler | William Moses Kunstler | 1919 | 1995 | American | lawyer and civil rights activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kunstler |
| Dana Beyer | Dana Beyer | 1952 | n/a | American | transgender rights advocate and the executive director of Gender Rights Maryland, a civil rights and advocacy organization serving Maryland's transgender community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Beyer |
| Norman Siegel | Norman Siegel | null | null | null | former executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), New York's leading civil rights organization, under the umbrella of the nationwide American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), as well as a former candidate for Public Advocate in New York City and a noted civil rights attorney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Siegel |
| Eric Mann | Eric Mann | 1942 | n/a | null | civil rights, anti-war, labor, and environmental organizer whose career spans more than 50 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Mann |
| David Schoen | David Schoen | null | null | American | attorney specializing in federal criminal defense and civil rights law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schoen |
| Morris B. Abram | Morris Berthold Abram | 1918 | 2000 | American | lawyer, civil rights activist, and for two years president of Brandeis University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_B._Abram |
| James Hart Stern | James Hart Stern | 1964 | 2019 | African | Baptist minister, civil rights activist, speaker, and author from Los Angeles, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hart_Stern |
| Lani Guinier | Carol Lani Guinier | 1950 | 2022 | American | educator, legal scholar, and civil rights theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lani_Guinier |
| Ron Kuby | Ronald L. Kuby | 1956 | n/a | American | criminal defense and civil rights lawyer, radio talk show host and television commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kuby |
| Sandra Feldman | Sandra Feldman | 1939 | 2005 | American | civil rights activist, educator and labor leader who served as president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1997 to 2004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Feldman |
| Lee Lorch | Lee Alexander Lorch | 1915 | 2014 | American | mathematician, early civil rights activist, and communist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Lorch |
| Leonard P. Zakim | thumb|350px|right|The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River | null | null | null | named to honor Zakim's civil rights and race relations work in Boston | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_P._Zakim |
| Judith L. Lichtman | Judith L. Lichtman | null | null | American | attorney specializing in women's rights and an advocate for human and civil rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_L._Lichtman |
| Will Maslow | William Maslow | 1907 | 2007 | American | lawyer and civil rights leader who fought for full equality in a free society for Jews, blacks, and other minorities at positions he held in government and as an executive of the American Jewish Congress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Maslow |
| Burton Joseph | Burton Allen Joseph | 1930 | 2010 | American | civil rights attorney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Joseph |
| Uri Davis | Uriel "Uri" Davis | 1943 | n/a | null | academic and civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Davis |
| Joel Elias Spingarn | Joel Elias Spingarn | 1875 | 1939 | American | educator, literary critic, civil rights activist, military intelligence officer, and horticulturalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Elias_Spingarn |
| Jack D. Foner | Jack Donald Foner | 1910 | 1999 | American | historian best known for his work on the labor movement and the struggle for African-American civil rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_D._Foner |
| Polly Spiegel Cowan | Pauline "Polly" Spiegel Cowan | 1913 | 1976 | American | civil rights activist who co-founded Wednesdays in Mississippi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Spiegel_Cowan |
| Maurice Braverman | Maurice Braverman | 1916 | 2002 | null | 20th-century American civil rights lawyer and some-time Communist Party member (and Party lawyer) who was convicted in 1952 under the Smith Act, served 28 of 36 months, then immediately faced disbarment, against which he fought in the 1970s and won reinstatement in Maryland (1974) and federal courts (1975) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Braverman |
| Alfred J. Marrow | Alfred Josephon Marrow | 1905 | 1978 | American | industrial psychologist, executive, civil rights leader, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_J._Marrow |
| Eslanda Goode Robeson | Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson | 1895 | 1965 | American | anthropologist, author, actress, and civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eslanda_Goode_Robeson |
| Frances Taylor | Frances Fink Taylor | 1909 | 1979 | null | New York music and film critic and a lyricist whose best-known song, "Those Three Are on My Mind" (with music by Pete Seeger) was a lament for the murdered civil rights workers - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Taylor |
| Abby Rubenfeld | Abby Rubenfeld | 1953 | n/a | American | civil rights attorney who practices in Nashville, Tennessee | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Rubenfeld |
| H. Jack Geiger | Herman J. Geiger | 1925 | 2020 | American | physician and civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Jack_Geiger |
| Joseph Gelders | Joseph Sidney Gelders | 1898 | 1950 | American | physicist who later became an antiracist, civil rights activist, labor organizer, and communist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gelders |
| Carol Ruth Silver | Carol Ruth Silver | 1938 | n/a | American | lawyer and civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ruth_Silver |
| Peter Neufeld | Peter J. Neufeld | 1950 | n/a | American | lawyer, cofounder, with Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project, and a founding partner in the civil rights law firm Neufeld Scheck & Brustin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Neufeld |
| Albert Goldman (politician) | Albert Goldman | 1897 | 1960 | Belorussian | political and civil rights lawyer, closely associated with the American communist movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Goldman_(politician) |
| Benjamin Steinberg (conductor) | Benjamin Steinberg | 1915 | 1974 | American | concert violinist, conductor, and civil rights activist, who is best remembered as the founding artistic director of the Symphony of the New World | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Steinberg_(conductor) |
| John Bertram Oakes | John Bertram Oakes | 1913 | 2001 | null | iconoclastic and influential U.S. journalist known for his early commitment to the environment, civil rights, and opposition to the Vietnam War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bertram_Oakes |
| Igal Roodenko | Igal Roodenko | null | null | American | civil rights activist, and pacifist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igal_Roodenko |
| Arthur Fauset | Arthur Huff Fauset | 1899 | 1983 | American | civil rights activist, anthropologist, folklorist, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Fauset |
| Everett Gendler | Everett Gendler | 1928 | n/a | American | rabbi, known for his involvement in progressive causes, including the civil rights movement, Jewish nonviolence, and the egalitarian Jewish Havurah movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Gendler |
| Frederick M. Lawrence | Frederick M. Lawrence | 1955 | n/a | American | lawyer, civil rights scholar and 10th Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation's first and most prestigious honor society, founded in 1776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_M._Lawrence |
| Elmer Gertz | Elmer Gertz | 1906 | 2000 | American | lawyer, writer, law professor, and civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gertz |
| Henry Schwarzschild | Henry Schwarzschild | 1925 | 1996 | null | activist for civil rights and human rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Schwarzschild |
| Samuel Polyakov | Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov | null | null | Russian | businessman, informally known as the "most famous railroad king" of the Russian Empire, the senior member of the Polyakov business family, a philanthropist and a Jewish civil rights activist, co-founder of World ORT. Polyakov's business interests concentrated in southern Russia and Ukraine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Polyakov |
| Catherine E. Lhamon | Catherine Elizabeth Lhamon | 1971 | n/a | American | attorney and government official who is the assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_E._Lhamon |
| David Carliner | David Carliner | null | null | null | immigration, civil liberties, and civil rights lawyer in Washington, D.C. Among the earliest practitioners of American immigration and naturalization law, he was an early combatant of anti-miscegenation laws, challenged the segregation of public accommodations, and fought for the rights of sexual minorities to enter the country and have full employment rights in the federal government | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carliner |
| Michael Robinson (rabbi) | Michael Aaron Robinson | 1924 | 2006 | American | Reform rabbi, civil rights activist, and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robinson_(rabbi) |
| Sheila Michaels | Sheila Babs Michaels | 1939 | 2017 | American | feminist and civil rights activist credited with popularizing Ms. as a default form of address for women regardless of their marital status | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Michaels |
| William L. Taylor | William Lewis Taylor | 1931 | 2010 | American | attorney and lobbyist who advocated on behalf of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement and played a major role in drafting civil rights legislation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Taylor |
| Gertrude Weil | Gertrude Weil | 1879 | 1971 | American | social activist involved in a wide range of progressive/leftist and often controversial causes, including women's suffrage, labor reform and civil rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Weil |
| Bernard G. Segal | Bernard "Bernie" G. Segal | 1907 | 1997 | American | lawyer known for his advocacy for the poor and his work in the civil rights movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_G._Segal |
| Carolyn Goodman (psychologist) | Carolyn Elizabeth Goodman | 1915 | 2007 | American | clinical psychologist who became a prominent civil rights advocate after her son, Andrew Goodman and two other civil rights workers, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Goodman_(psychologist) |
| Alexander Lavut | Alexander Pavlovich Lavut | 1929 | 2013 | null | mathematician, dissident and a key figure in the civil rights movement in the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lavut |
| Herbert J. Seligmann | Herbert Jacob Seligmann | 1891 | 1984 | American | author and journalist known for his writings on civil rights issues, African Americans, bigotry, the U.S. occupation of Haiti, and the rise of Nazism in Europe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_J._Seligmann |
| Elizabeth Fink | Elizabeth Marsha Fink | 1945 | 2015 | American | civil rights and criminal defense attorney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Fink |
| Murray Saltzman | Murray Saltzman | 1929 | 2010 | American | reform Jewish rabbi and civil rights leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Saltzman |
| Al Gerhardstein | Alphonse A. Gerhardstein | 1951 | n/a | null | civil rights attorney in Ohio who has been litigating since 1976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gerhardstein |
| Elinor Miller Greenberg | Elinor "Ellie" Miller Greenberg | 1932 | 2021 | American | author educationalist and speech pathologist, an expert in the field of adult education and experiential learning, as well as a former civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Miller_Greenberg |
| David A. Rose | David Allan Rose | 1906 | 1995 | American | lawyer and judge who served as a Massachusetts state court judge for more than 40 years and active in many community and civil rights organizations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Rose |
| Ilya Gabay | Ilya Yankelevich Gabay | 1935 | 1973 | null | key figure in the civil rights movement in the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Gabay |
| Nate Cardozo | Nate Cardozo | null | null | American | privacy and civil rights lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Cardozo |
| Elaine Black Yoneda | Elaine Black Yoneda | 1906 | 1988 | American | labor and civil rights activist, member of the Communist Party and candidate for political office in California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Black_Yoneda |
| Henry Moskowitz (activist) | Henry Moskowitz | 1880 | 1936 | null | civil rights activist, and one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moskowitz_(activist) |
| Qian Julie Wang | Qian Julie Wang | null | null | Chinese | writer and civil rights lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Julie_Wang |
| Mark de Solla Price | Mark de Solla Price | 1960 | n/a | null | author, journalist, public speaker, civil rights activist, and HIV/AIDS educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_de_Solla_Price |
| Erna Weill | Erna Weill | 1904 | 1996 | American | German-Jewish sculptor known for her busts of 20th-century persons, in particular civil rights figures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Weill |
| Nancy Feldman | Nancy G. Feldman | 1922 | 2014 | null | civil rights activist and longtime educator from the U.S. state of Illinois | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Feldman |
| Peter Rindskopf | Peter Eric Rindskopf | 1942 | 1971 | American | civil rights lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rindskopf |
| Lenn Redman | Lenn Redman | 1912 | 1987 | null | artist, caricaturist, animator, author, poet, illustrator, entertainer, cartoonist and civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenn_Redman |
| Mendy Samstein | Jehudah Menachem Mendel "Mendy" Samstein | 1938 | 2007 | American | civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendy_Samstein |
| Matthew Stark | Matthew Stark | 1930 | 2018 | null | noted civil rights activist in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Lee County, Florida | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Stark |
| Bob Basker | Bob Basker | 1918 | 2001 | null | civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Basker |
| Meir Margalit | Dr. Meir Margalit | 1952 | n/a | null | human and civil rights activist in Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Margalit |
| June Shagaloff Alexander | June Shagaloff Alexander | 1928 | n/a | null | U.S. civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Shagaloff_Alexander |
| Jim Letherer | James M. Letherer | 1933 | 2001 | American | civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Letherer |
| Marty Rosenbluth | Marty Rosenbluth | null | null | null | immigration lawyer and civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Rosenbluth |