Briefings containing "activist"
Ingrid Newkirk—activist
Ingrid Newkirk (born June 11, 1949) is a British-born animal rights activist, author, and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal rights organization.[1] She co-founded PETA in 1980 with American activist Alex Pacheco, and is the author of several books about animal liberation, including Free the Animals, You Can Save the Animals, and Making Kind Choices, which has a foreword by Sir Paul McCartney.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Newkirk
Wavy Gravy—activist
Wavy Gravy (born Hugh Romney on May 15, 1936) is a life-long activist for peace and personal empowerment, best known for his hippie appearance, personality, and beliefs. ...
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Molly Yard—activist
Former NOW president, activist Molly Yard dies at 93 Molly Yard, the longtime liberal activist who led the National Organization for Women during the fight over the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, has died. She was 93.
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Maggie Kuhn—activist
Maggie Kuhn (August 3, 1905 - April 22, 1995) was born in Buffalo, New York. She was a lifelong American activist. She is most famous for founding the Gray Panthers movement in 1971 after being forced into retirement by the Presbyterian Church.
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Stokely Carmichael—activist
Stokely Carmichael), the civil rights activist and student leader who embraced black nationalism and moved to Africa nearly three decades ago, died Sunday at the age of 57 near his home in Conakry, the capital city of Guinea.
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/nov1998/carm-n18.shtml
Marian Wright Edelman—activist
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) was a lobbyist, lawyer, civil rights activist who founded the Children's Defense Fund in 1973 to advocate children's rights. Marian Wright Edelman was born in Bennetsville, South Carolina, on June 6, 1939 and was named for the singer Marian Anderson. She was the youngest of five children born to Arthur Jerome Wright and Maggie Leola (Bowen) Wright. She spent her early years in Bennettsville. It was, as she described it, a small-town, socially segregated childhood.
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William Sloane Coffin—activist
William Sloane Coffin, Pastor and Prophet, Dies at 81 William Sloane Coffin was a man whom every person of faith ought to have known. He was the chaplain at Yale University, the pastor of the famed Riverside Church in New York, and a world renowned civil rights and anti-war activist. He visited Andover Newton on several occasions and was a friend and colleague of President Nick Carter.
http://www.ants.edu/about/news/2006/041306coffin.htm
Louis Blanqui—activist
Blanqui, (Louis) Auguste - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about ... Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Blanqui, (Louis) Auguste. Blanqui, (Louis) Auguste. Information about Blanqui, (Louis) Auguste in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. Louis Auguste Blanqui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louis Auguste Blanqui (born February 8 , 1805 in Puget-Théniers , France , died January 1 , 1881 ) was a French political activist, notable for the revolutionary theory of ... Louis Auguste Blanqui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louis Auguste Blanqui ( February 8 , 1805 - January 1 , 1881 ) was a French political activist, notable for the revolutionary theory ...
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Ira Einhorn—activist
Ira Samuel Einhorn (born May 15 , 1940 ) was an activist in the 1960s and 1970s who is now serving a life sentence for the murder of Holly Maddux in 1977.
http://www.dark-legion.org/en/in%20absentia
Annie Besant—activist
Annie Besant Plaque on house in Colby Road, London SE19 where Annie Besant lived in 1874. Thought-form of the music of Charles Gounod, according to Besant and C.W. Leadbeater in Thought-Forms (1901) Annie Wood Besant (Clapham, London October 1, 1847 – Adyar, India September 20, 1933) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator. Annie Besant - Project Gutenberg eText 13715 - http://www. ... Annie Besant - Project Gutenberg eText 13715 - http://www. ... Image File history File links Annie_Besant_plaque. ...
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