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Top 101 reformers, revolutionaries, activists, and change agents / edited by Nicholas Faulkner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackburn, Joyce. People you should know.
- People You Should Know
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social reformers--Biography.
- Social reformers.
- Political activists--Biography.
- Political activists.
- Revolutionaries--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- Social change--History.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 210 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides readers with brief biographies of some of the most important, prolific, and influential change agents of all time.
- Contents:
- Jane Addams
- Ai Weiwei
- Muhammad Ali
- Kofi Annan
- Susan B. Anthony
- Ella Baker
- Benazir Bhutto
- Simon Bolivar
- Louis D. Brandeis
- David Ross Brower
- John Brown
- Pearl S. Buck
- Rachel Carson
- Jimmy Carter
- Cesar Estrada Chavez
- Michael Collins
- Dalai Lama
- Charles Darwin
- Eugene V. Debs
- John Dewey
- Frederick Douglass
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Medgar Wiley Evers
- Henry Ford
- Francis I
- Betty Friedan
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Galileo
- Indira Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Leymah Gbowee
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Albert Gore, Jr.
- Che Guevara
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Abbie Hoffman
- Jesse Jackson
- Thomas Jefferson
- Joan of Arc
- Saint John Paul II
- Tawakkul Karman
- Florence Kelley
- John F. Kennedy
- John Maynard Keynes
- Billie Jean King
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- John Lennon
- John L. Lewis
- Abraham Lincoln
- Liu Xiaobo
- Martin Luther
- Malcolm X
- Nelson Mandela
- Thurgood Marshall
- Harvey Milk
- Michael Moore
- Lucretia Mott
- John Muir
- A. J. Muste
- Ralph Nader
- Barack Obama
- George Orwell
- Rosa L. Parks
- Frances Perkins
- Wendell Phillips
- Homer Plessy
- A. Philip Randolph
- Paul Robeson
- Jackie Robinson
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Bayard Rustin
- Oscar Arias Sanchez
- Margaret Sanger
- Kailash Satyarthi
- Dred Scott
- Pete Seeger
- Upton Sinclair
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Lincoln Steffens
- Gloria Steinem
- I. F. Stone
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Blessed Mother Teresa
- Margaret Thatcher
- Norman Thomas
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Desmond Tutu
- William Tyndale
- Voltaire
- Lech Walesa
- William Wallace
- Earl Warren
- George Washington
- Cornel West
- Elie Wiesel
- Malala Yousafzai
- Muhammad Yunus.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781680484977
- 1680484974
- OCLC:
- 954055370
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