People In Context

Angela Davis - Activist Black Liberation

Barbara Jordan - African American Congresswoman

Betty Friedan - Feminist

Bella Abzug - Feminist and Congresswoman

Billy Jean King - Tennis player, feminist

Cesar Chavez - Labor organizer

Coretta Scott King - Civil Rights Activist

Delores Huerta - Labor Activist

Earl Warren - Supreme Court Judge

Eldridge Cleaver - Black Liberation Activist

Ella Baker - Civil Rights Activist

Fannie Lou Hamer - Civil Rights Activist

Fred Hampton - Civil Rights Activist (W)

Gloria Steinem - Feminist

Harvey Milk - Civil Rights

Huey Newton - Civil Rights Activist

James Baldwin - Author & Civil Rights Activist

Jesse Jackson - Civil Rights Activist

John Lewis - Civil Rights Activist

Linda Brown and Family - Civil Rights Activist

Malcolm X - Civil Rights Activist

Martin Luther King - Civil Rights Activist 

Phyllis Schlafly - Conservative Social Activist

Rachel Carson - Environmentalist

Rosa Parks - Civil Rights Activist 

Ruby Bridges and Family - Civil Rights Activist

Stokley Carmichael - Civil Rights Activist, Black Panther

Tom Hayden - Anti War and Civil Rights Activist (W)

Vernon Dahmer - Civil Rights Activist (W)

Dwight Eisenhower - 34th President of the United States

Henry Kissinger - Diplomat, Presidential Advisor (W)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy - 35th President of the United States

Joseph McCarthy - Senator

Lyndon Johnson - 36th President of United States

Richard Nixon - 37th President of the United States

Robert F Kennedy - US Attorney General

Robert McNamera - US Secretary of Defense

Shirley Chisholm - 1st  African American Congresswoman

Thurgood Marshall - 1st African American Supreme Court Justice

William Brennan - Supreme Court Justice (W)

William Westmoreland - General

Alan Ginsberg - Writer, poet (W)

Benjamin Spock - Pediatrician, writer

Bob Dylan   -   Singer, songwriter

Harper Lee - Writer

J Edgar Hoover - FBI Director

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - First Lady

JD Salinger - Writer of Catcher in the Rye

Joan Baez - Singer, songwriter, activist

Julia Child - Chef, TV producer

Langston Hughes - African American poet

Maya Angelou - Poet

Muhammad Ali - Boxer

Odetta - African American Singer

Pete Seeger - Singer, activist

Ruth Handler - Barbie inventor, president Mattel

Stan Lee - Comic Writer

Walter Cronkite - Broadcast Journalist

William Levitt - Real estate developer 

Buckminster Fuller - Visionary, architect, inventor

Buzz Aldrin - Astronaut

Edward R Murrow - Broadcast journalist (W)

James Watson - Broadcast journalist

John Glenn - Astronaut, Senator

Jonas Salk - Doctor, Developed polio vaccine

Katherine Johnson - NASA "computer"