Social Reformers And Humanitarians
23 entries in the Social Reformers And Humanitarians compendium.
Edwin ChadwickEnglish social reformer who advanced sanitation and Poor Law reform.Efua DorkenooGhanaian-British campaigner who pioneered the global movement against FGM.Elizabeth FryEnglish prison reformer and Quaker philanthropist.Etta Palm d'AeldersDutch feminist and spy who addressed the Cercle Social and co-founded an early women's cluFerdinand LassalleGerman jurist, philosopher, and founder of the first German workers' party.Frédéric PassyFrench economist and pacifist; co-winner of first Nobel Peace Prize.Georgi PlekhanovFounder of Russian Marxism and key Menshevik theorist.Harriet JacobsAfrican-American abolitionist and author of a classic slave narrative.Henri DunantSwiss humanitarian who co-founded the Red Cross.Henri La FontaineBelgian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize-winning peace movement leader.Hiratsuka RaichōPioneering Japanese feminist who founded the Bluestocking journal.Huda Sha'arawiEgyptian feminist leader and founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union.Ilia ChavchavadzeGeorgian nationalist leader, writer, and saint.Ingrid NewkirkCo-founder of PETA, the world's largest animal rights group.Iqbal MasihPakistani child labourer and activist against bonded labour.Jack KevorkianPathologist and euthanasia advocate known as "Dr. Death".Jacques de MolayLast grand master of the Knights Templar, executed in 1314.Jan PalachCzech student who self-immolated in protest against the 1968 invasion.Jane AddamsAmerican settlement activist and first U.S. woman Nobel Peace Prize winner.Janusz KorczakPediatrician and educator who died with his orphans.Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-VarenneFrench revolutionary lawyer and architect of the Reign of Terror.Jacques HébertFrench journalist and radical voice of the sans-culottes.Jean-Marie Collot d'HerboisRevolutionary who oversaw mass executions in Lyon.
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