Civil Rights & Justice Warriors Some people look at injustice and walk away. These people didn’t. This category honors the most powerful, charismatic voices in the fight for equality, dignity, and human rights the men and women whose words, sacrifices, and unshakable courage moved nations and rewrote laws.
Sophie Scholl Anti-Hitler Leaflets Paid Life, On February 18, 1943, a 21-year-old student walked through the University of Munich with a suitcase full of paper. She climbed to the top …
Harvey Milk First Gay Elected Official, On November 8, 1977, a camera store owner in San Francisco woke up as a public official. The story of Harvey Milk first gay …
Ida B. Wells, In the spring of 1892, a 29-year-old schoolteacher-turned-newspaper-editor packed a bag, said goodbye to safety, and rode into the heart of a country that wanted her dead. …
Bayard Rustin It is late August 1963, and a quarter of a million people are packed onto the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King Jr. is about to …
Civil Rights Heroes, Picture a hot afternoon in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955. A tired seamstress named Rosa Parks says one quiet “no,” and within days, tens of thousands of …
