Lucretia Mott
U.S. Quaker, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, & social reformer born in 1793.
Louis Braille
French educator & inventor of a system of reading & writing for the blind or visually impaired, born in 1809.
Paul Revere
American silversmith, engraver & early industrialist best remembered as a Patriot in the American Revolution.
Carry Nation
American radical temperance activist known for attacking taverns with a hatchet before Prohibition.
Ludovic Trarieux
French Republican statesman, prominent Dreyfusard, & pioneer of international human rights born in 1840.
Frances Power Cobbe
Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, anti-vivisection activist, & suffragist born in 1822.
Petra Kelly
German politician, ecofeminist activist, & founding member of the German Green Party born in 1947.
Jacques René Hébert
French journalist & leader of the French Revolution born in 1757.
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, anarchist, & co-founder of the Catholic Worker newspaper in 1933.
Marius Jacob
French anarchist illegalist born in 1879. One of the inspirations for the fictional character Arsene Lupin.