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Evers, Medgar (1925–1963)
African American civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was born in Decatur, Mississippi, on July 2, 1925, to James Evers, who worked at a sawmill, and his wife Jessie. As field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...
- Activism and Social Justice
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- Palmer Raids
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- Pittsburgh Rail Strike of 1877
- Private Property
- Recuperated Factories in Argentina
- Reed, John
- Robeson, Paul
- Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
- Sacco and Vanzetti
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- Taxation and Activism
- Teacher Unions
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union
- Thomas, Norman
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- Media Activism
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- Reed, John
- Situationist International
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- Think Tanks
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- Zines
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- Achebe, Chinua
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- Mandela, Winnie
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- Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Nkrumah, Kwame
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- Tutu, Desmond
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- Activism in Australia and New Zealand
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- Testimonio
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- Cuban Literacy Campaign
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- de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés
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- Dussel, Enrique
- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
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- García Márquez, Gabriel
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- HIJOS, Children of the Disappeared
- López Obrador, Andrés Manuel
- La Nueva Canción
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- Mexican Muralists
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- Romero, Oscar
- Sandinismo
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- Timerman, Jacobo
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- New Profile
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- http://MoveOn.org
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- Afrocentricity
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- Anti-Lynching Movement
- Baker, Ella
- Baldwin, James
- Baraka, Amiri
- Basquait, Jean-Michel
- Belafonte, Harry
- Bell, Derrick
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- Brown, H. Rap
- Brown, John
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Chisolm, Shirley
- Civil Rights Movement
- Congress of Racial Equality
- Conyers, John, Jr.
- Critical Race Theory
- Davis, Angela
- Davis, Ossie
- Dellums, Ronald
- Douglass, Frederick
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Edelman, Marion Wright
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Evers, Medgar
- Farrakhan, Louis
- Freedom Rides, 1961
- Garvey, Marcus
- Gregory, Dick
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hampton, Fred
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- hooks, bell
- Hughes, Langston
- Jackson, George
- Jackson, Jesse
- Jordan, Barbara
- King, Coretta Scott
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Kwanzaa
- Lee, Barbara
- Locke, Alain
- Malcolm X
- Marshall, Thurgood
- Million Man March
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Morrison, Toni
- Moses, Robert
- Muhammad, Elijah
- Nation of Islam
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- National Urban League
- Newton, Huey P.
- Pan-Africanism
- Parks, Rosa
- Poor People's Campaign
- Randolph, A. Philip
- Rastifarians
- Reparations Movement
- Robeson, Paul
- Robinson, Jackie
- Rustin, Bayard
- Seale, Bobby
- Sharpton, Al
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Truth, Sojourner
- Tubman, Harriet
- Turner, Nat
- Underground Railroad
- Walker, Alice
- West, Cornel
- White Privilege
- Wilkins, Roy
- Woodson, Carter
- Agrarian Socialist Movement
- Alinsky, Saul
- Alternative Bookstores
- American Gold Star Mothers
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- American Indian Movement
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- Deloria, Vine, Jr.
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- Menchú Tum, Rigoberta
- Oglala, Incident at
- Peltier, Leonard
- Pueblo Revolt
- Reparations Movement
- Sitting Bull
- Wounded Knee
- American Revolution
- Anti–Death Penalty Movement
- Anti-Busing Movement
- Antigonish Movement
- Anti-Immigrant Politics
- Anti-Nuclear Movement
- Anti-Prison Movement
- Arab American Activism
- Asian American
- Attica Uprising
- Ballot Initiatives
- Benjamin, Medea
- Bill of Rights
- Billionaires for Bush
- Black Lung Movement
- Braden, Anne and Carl
- Brown, John
- Campus Antiwar Network
- Carter, James Earl
- Chautauqua
- Chicago Democratic Convention Demonstrations, 1968
- Chicago Seven
- Children's Defense Fund
- CIA Repression of Social Movements
- Clamshell Alliance
- Clark, Ramsey
- Code Pink
- Communist Party USA
- Communitarianism
- Community Action Program
- Community Organizing
- Cotton, Samuel
- Counter-Recruitment
- Coxey, Jacob S.
- Darrow, Clarence
- Dees, Morris
- Dellinger, David
- Douglas, Marjory Stoneman
- Draft Resistance
- Drug Laws, Resistance to
- Ellsberg, Daniel
- Eugenics Movement
- Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
- Feminism/Gender
- Roe v. Wade
- Abortion
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Anti-Pornography Activism
- Butler, Judith
- de Beauvoir, Simone
- Dworkin, Andrea
- Ecofeminism
- Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Feminism
- Feminist Majority Foundation
- Feminist Research
- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
- Friedan, Betty
- Gage, Matilda Joslyn
- Gender Equity Movement in Schools
- Genital Integrity Activists
- Goldman, Emma
- Islamic Feminism
- Men's Movement
- National Organization for Women (NOW)
- Ovington, Mary White
- Roy, Arundhati
- Sadker, Myra and David
- Sanger, Margaret
- Schlafly, Phyllis
- Seaman, Barbara
- Sex Workers' Rights
- Socialist Feminism
- Steinem, Gloria
- Take Back the Night
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Women's Collective Acts of Resistance
- Women's Health Activism
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Women's Suffrage Movement
- Woolf, Virginia
- Fonda, Jane
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Gangs and Activism
- George, Henry
- GI Bill
- GI Movement
- Government Suppression of Social Activism
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- Gray Panthers
- Great Society
- Greenback Movement
- Gun Politics
- Habitat for Humanity
- Hayden, Tom
- Highlander Center
- Hoffman, Abbie
- Hollywood Blacklists
- Homestead Riot
- Horton, Myles
- Hull-House
- Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Jones, Mother (Mary)
- Kennedy, John F.
- Kennedy, Robert F.
- LaFollette, Robert
- Latino/a
- Albizu Campos, Pedro
- Anzaldúa, Gloria
- Baez, Joan
- Bilingual Education
- Chávez, César
- Chicano Movement
- Farmworkers' Movement
- Grape Boycotts
- League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
- Lebrón, Lolita
- Martínez, Betita
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
- Sánchez, George I.
- Tijerina, Reies López
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered
- ACT UP
- AIDS Memorial Quilt
- Butler, Judith
- Gay Liberation Front
- Gay-Straight Alliance Network
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Movement
- Milk, Harvey
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
- Queer Theory
- Shepard, Matthew
- Stonewall Rebellion
- Transgender Movement
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lippmann, Walter
- Living Wage Movement
- Long, Huey P.
- McGovern, George
- Mencken, H. L.
- Military-Industrial Complex
- Militia Movements
- Minutemen Project
- Moore, Michael
- Multiculturalism
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- New Deal
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- Paine, Thomas
- Peace Corps
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- Police Brutality
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- Prison-Industrial Complex
- Professional Activist Organizations
- Public Citizen
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Sanctuary Movement
- Savio, Mario
- School of the Americas
- School of the Americas Watch
- Shays' Rebellion
- Sheehan, Cindy
- Smith, Samantha
- Southern Student Organizing Committee
- Spock, Benjamin
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Students for a Democratic Society
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Third-Party Politics
- Thomas, Norman
- Thoreau, Henry David
- United for a Fair Economy
- United for Peace and Justice
- Urban Uprisings, United States
- Veterans for Peace
- Voices in the Wilderness
- Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
- Weather Underground
- Welfare Rights Movement
- Wellstone, Paul
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Young Americans for Freedom
- Young Patriots Organization
- Zinn, Howard
- Political Philosophy/Ethics
- Arendt, Hannah
- Atheism
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Butler, Judith
- Camus, Albert
- Chomsky, Noam
- Citizenship and Patriotism
- Civil Disobedience
- Civil Society
- Commodification
- Communitarianism
- Confucius
- Critical Race Theory
- Darwin, Charles
- de Certeau, Michel
- Democracy
- Democratic Socialism
- Engels, Friedrich
- False Consciousness
- Fascism
- Foucault, Michel
- Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
- Gitlin, Todd
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Ideology
- Income Inequality
- Jesus Christ
- Just War Theory
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Laclau, Ernesto
- Leadership, Participatory Democratic
- Liberalism
- Libertarians
- Locke, Alain
- Locke, John
- Lukács, Georg
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Marcuse, Herbert
- Marx, Karl
- Marxist Theory
- Mill, John Stuart
- Mills, C. Wright
- Mouffe, Chantal
- Multitude
- Neoconservatism
- Neoliberalism
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Nonviolence and Activism
- Old Left
- Participatory Economics
- Plato
- Populism
- Power, Theories of
- Praxis
- Private Property
- Rand, Ayn
- Rawls, John
- Reich, Wilhelm
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Said, Edward
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Smith, Adam
- Social Democracy
- Social Movements, Sociology of
- Socialism
- Socrates
- Thompson, E. P.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Touraine, Alain
- Utopian Communities
- Violence, Theories of
- Religious/Spiritual Movements
- Bahá'í Faith and Social Action
- Berrigan Brothers
- Boff, Leonardo
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
- Boyle, Father
- Catholic Worker Movement
- Christian Base Communities
- Christian Right
- Coffin, William Sloane
- Cone, James H.
- Conscientious Objectors to War
- Dalai Lama
- Day, Dorothy
- Ecopaganism
- Gutiérrez, Gustavo
- Intelligent Design Movement
- Islamic Feminism
- Jesus Christ
- Just War Theory
- Liberation Theology
- Luther, Martin
- Martín-Baró, Ignacio
- Merton, Thomas
- Millennial and Apocalyptic Movements
- Muhammad
- Muhammad, Elijah
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Option for the Poor
- Pacifism
- Prejean, Sister Helen
- Protestantism
- Public Theology
- Quakers
- Rastafarians
- Religious Activism
- Reverend Billy
- Romero, Oscar
- Sanctuary Movement
- Sobrino, Jon
- Social Gospel Movement
- Sojourners Movement
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Spirituality and Peacemaking
- Torres Restrepo, Camilo
- Tutu, Desmond
- Wallis, Jim
- West, Cornel
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Zionism
- Social, Health, and Welfare Rights
- Action Medic Groups
- Addams, Jane
- Advocacy
- Alternative Health
- Arts-in-Medicine Movement
- Black Lung Movement
- Breastfeeding Movement
- Child Advocacy
- Children's Defense Fund
- Cloward, Richard A., and Piven, Frances Fox
- Community Action Programs
- Doctors without Boarders
- Edelman, Marion Wright
- Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
- Homeless Activism
- Homeopathy Movement
- Hospice Movement
- Housing Movements
- Hull-House
- Koop, C. Everett
- Low-Income Housing
- Natural Childbirth Movement
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Poor People's Campaign
- Professional Activist Organizations
- Save the Children
- Slow Food Movement
- Spock, Benjamin
- Wald, Lillian
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