*Note: A person may connect to multiple historical contexts.
Angela Davis - Activist Black Liberation
Betty Friedan - Feminist
Bella Abzug - Feminist and Congresswoman
Billie Jean King - Tennis player, feminist
Earl Warren - Supreme Court Judge
Ella Baker - Civil Rights Activist
Shirley Chisholm - 1st African American Congresswoman
Fannie Lou Hamer - Civil Rights Activist
Harvey Milk - Civil Rights
James Baldwin - Author & Civil Rights Activist
Jesse Jackson - American civil rights activist, LGBTQ rights activist, and politician.
John Lewis - Civil Rights Activist
Little Rock Nine/Elizabeth Eckford- Civil Rights
Malcolm X - Civil Rights Activist
Thurgood Marshall - 1st African American Supreme Court Justice
Black Panther Party/Huey Newton/ Bobby Seale/Fred Hampton- Civil Rights Activists
Phyllis Schlafly - Conservative Social Activist
Rachel Carson - Environmentalist
Rosa Parks - Civil Rights Activist
Stokley Carmichael - Civil Rights Activist, Black Panther
John Kerry- Vietnam veteran & U.S. Senator from MA.
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
Tim O'Brien - American author and Vietnam veteran who was drafted into the U.S. Army.
William Westmoreland - General
Alan Ginsberg - Writer, poet (W)
Bob Dylan - Singer, songwriter
Gloria Steinem - Journalist, feminist, and activist
Jane Fonda - Actress, political activist
J Edgar Hoover - FBI Director
Joan Baez - Singer, songwriter, activist
Maya Angelou - Poet
Muhammad Ali - Boxer
Odetta - African American Singer
Pete Seeger - Singer, activist
Stan Lee - Comic writer