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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks


Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. Her act of defiance and the resulting Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. Parks was born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She married in 1932, and with her husband's encouragement, finished high school in 1933 at a time when […]
Alice Paul
Alice Paul


Alice Paul was one of the main leaders in the U.S. women's suffrage movement. Paul was born on January 11, 1885, in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, a descendant of William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania. Paul’s parents supported gender equality and social reform, and Paul attended women’s suffrage meetings with her mother. Paul graduated from Swarthmore College, a Quaker school co-founded by her grandfather, in 1905 with a bachelor's degree in biology. She received a Master of Arts in 1907 and a doctorate in 1912 from the University of […]
Autumn Peltier
Autumn Peltier


Autumn Peltier is the chief water commissioner of the Anishinabek Nation, and a water-rights advocate and environmental activist. Peltier was born on September 17, 2004, in Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, and is a member of the Aniishnabek Nation. Peltier was appointed as the Anishinabek Nation chief water commissioner in 2019 following the death of her great-aunt, Josephine Mandamin, who had been the previous chief water commissioner. Since beginning her activism at age 8, Peltier has spoken at the Assembly of First Nations in 2016, the United Nations […]
Carmen Perez
Carmen Perez


Carmen Perez is an activist and the executive director of The Gathering for Justice, and one of the national co-chairs of the 2017 Women's March on Washington. Perez was born on January 21, 1977, in Oxnard, California. She received an associate's degree in general liberal arts from Oxnard College and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California – Santa Cruz. Perez has advocated for civil rights issues, including mass incarceration, gender equity, violence prevention, racial healing and community policing. Since 2010, she has served as the executive […]
Maria Eva Peron
Maria Eva Peron


María Eva Duarte de Perón was the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and first lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is usually referred to as Eva or Evita. Perón was born May 7, 1919, in the village of Los Toldos, Argentina, the youngest of five children. Her parents were not married, and her father abandoned the family when Perón was one year old, leaving them in poverty. Perón's legal and societal status as an illegitimate child followed her throughout her life. At age 15, […]
Jess Phoenix
Jess Phoenix


Jess Phoenix, a geologist and the founder and executive of Blueprint Earth, was a candidate for California’s 25th district in the 2018 elections. She lost in the primaries. Born in 1982, Phoenix earned her Bachelor of Arts in history from Smith College in 2005 and her Master of Science in geology from California State University at Los Angeles in 2010.
Katrina Pierson
Katrina Pierson


Katrina Pierson is an activist and communications consultant. She was the national spokesperson for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign and a senior advisor for his 2020 campaign. Pierson was born in Kansas on July 20, 1976. She received an associate of science degree from Kilgore College and a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Texas at Dallas. After college, she worked for InVentiv Health in 2008, the Baylor Health Care System from 2009 to 2011, and AGS Software Solutions as director of corporate affairs from May 2011 […]
Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean


Helen Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun and an advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. Prejean was born on April 21, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in 1957 (now known as the Congregation of St. Joseph) and received a B.A. in English and education from St. Mary's Dominican College, New Orleans in 1962. In 1973, she earned an M.A. in religious education from St. Paul's University in Ottawa, Canada. She has been the religious education director at St. Frances […]
Queen Rania of Jordan
Queen Rania of Jordan


Rania Al Abdullah is the Queen consort of Jordan and an international advocate for education, health, community empowerment, youth, cross-cultural dialogue and micro-finance. Queen Rania was born August 31, 1970, in Kuwait to Palestinian parents. She obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration from the American University of Cairo in 1991, then worked briefly in marketing for Citibank and Apple Inc. On June 10, 1991, she married Prince Abdullah bin Al Hussein of Jordan, who assumed power as king on February 7, 1999. Sources: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (2009, […]
Sarah Parker Remond
Sarah Parker Remond


Sarah Parker Remond was a free-born African American lecturer, abolitionist and physician. Remond was born on June 6, 1826, in Salem, Massachusetts. Her parents, also free born, were successful businesspeople and activists. Remond became an anti-slavery lecturer, delivering her first lecture in 1842 at the age of 16. In 1853, Remond was forced to leave a theater and pushed down a flight stairs after she refused to sit in a segregated section. She sued for damages and won, and the court ordered the theater to integrate its seating. From 1856 […]