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Anarchists, civil rights advocates, dissidents, and political pundits have all played key roles in shaping our nation. Examining modern-day individuals like WikiLeaker Bradley Manning and conservative video prankster James O'Keefe as well as those of prior decades like César Chávez, this book profiles controversial figures across history.

Table of Contents

List of Entries by Broad Topic Chronological List of Entries Introduction Abbey, Edward Abu-Jamal, Mumia Abzug, Bella Addams, Jane Al-Arian, Sami Ali, Muhammad Asner, Ed Ayers, William Balch, Emily Greene Baldwin, James Banks, Dennis Bari, Judi Beck, Glenn Benitez, Lucas Benjamin, Medea Berrigan, Daniel, and Berrigan, Philip Bethune, Mary McLeod Boggs, Grace Lee Bowe, Frank G. Brown, Ruth Brownmiller, Susan Bullard, Robert Burroughs, William Cammermeyer, Grethe Carlin, George Carmichael, Stokely/Ture, Kwame Carson, Rachel Catt, Carrie Chapman Chávez, César Chavis, Benjamin Franklin Choi, Daniel Chomsky, Noam Clark, Ramsey Coffin, William Sloane Collier, John Commoner, Barry Corbett, Jim Corrie, Rachel Coughlin, Charles E. Darrow, Clarence Dart, Justin, Jr. Davis, Angela Day, Dorothy Debs, Eugene V. Dees, Morris Dellinger, David Deloria, Vine, Jr. Dennett, Mary Ware Douglas, Marjory Stoneman Dowie, John Alexander Du Bois, W.?E.?B. Ellsberg, Daniel Farrakhan, Louis Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley Frank, Barney Franken, Al Friedan, Betty Gaskin, Stephen Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Giovanni, Nikki Goldman, Emma Goodman, Paul Gregory, Dick Hall, Gus Hamer, Fannie Lou Hampton, Fred Hayden, Tom Height, Dorothy Herrick, William Hill, Joe Hill, Julia "Butterfly," Hoffman, Abbie Horowitz, David Horton, Myles Hubbard, Walter, Jr. Humphry, Derek Hurston, Zora Neale Johnson, Harriet McBryde Jones, Mary Harris Kelley, Florence Kelly, Kathy Kernaghan, Charles Kevorkian, Jack King, Martin Luther, Jr. Kochiyama, Yuri Kovic, Ron Kuhn, Margaret Kunstler, William LaDuke, Winona LaRouche, Lyndon Leopold, Aldo Limbaugh, Rush Malcolm X Mankiller, Wilma Manning, Bradley McCarthy, Joseph McCorvey, Norma Means, Russell Michelman, Kate Milk, Harvey Moore, Harry Moore, Michael Murie, Margaret Nader, Ralph Norman, Mildred Ochs, Phil O'Hair, Madalyn Murray O'Keefe, James Oppenheimer, J. Robert Palin, Sarah Parks, Rosa Parsons, Lucy Paul, Alice Peltier, Leonard Perkins, Frances Rand, Ayn Randolph, A. Philip Rankin, Jeannette Robeson, Paul Roosevelt, Eleanor Rosenberg, Ethel and Rosenberg, Julius Rudd, Mark Rustin, Bayard Sacco, Ferdinando Nicola, and Vanzetti, Bartolomeo Sanger, Margaret Schlafly, Phyllis Schneiderman, Rose Seale, Bobby Seeger, Pete Sheehan, Cindy Sheen, Martin Silkwood, Karen Gay Simkins, Modjeska Monteith Sinclair, Upton Sontag, Susan Steinmetz, Charles Strong, Anna Louise Tall, JoAnn Tarbell, Ida Tiller, George Vera Cruz, Philip Vogler, Joe Walker, Alice Wallis, Jim Wiesel, Elie Wolf, Hazel Woodhull, Victoria Wright, Ann Yasui, Minoru Yeshitela, Omali Zappa, Frank Zinn, Howard Selected Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index

About the Author

Kathlyn Gay is a prolific writer of nonfiction information books for adults and teens. Her published works include more than 100 titles.

Reviews

The entries were well-written and well-researched and include bibliographies for further reading. Gay's introduction provides an excellent historical overview of activism in the US from the sixteenth-century pilgrims seeking religious freedom to the protests of the twenty-first century. . . . While the primary audience would be high-school students or undergraduates, more advanced scholars would find the search features useful as well for authoritative biographies, particularly for the more obscure or most recent figures.
*Reference Reviews*

This is a solid reference work for college students and the general public. Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers.
*Choice*

Content should be accessible to students in high school and up. Teachers and librarians will appreciate the factual and even tone as well as the breadth of coverage. Recommended for high school, large public, and academic collections.
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