18 Under Remembered Voices Of US History

A poster series inspired by the revolutionary wisdom of 18 great American activists.

1. Aldo Leopold

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An American author, scientist, ecologist, forester and environmentalist, best known for his book A Sand County Almanac, and his influential work in the development of modern environmental ethics.

2. Ida B. Wells

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An American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader of the civil rights movement, known for her documentation of lynching across the United States.

3. Bayard Rustin

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An American leader in social movements for civil rights, gay-rights, socialism, pacifism, and non-violence.

4. William Lloyd Garrison

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A radical American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer, best known for founding the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, in 1831- which was published until the end of slavery, in 1865.

5. Fanny Lou Hamer

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An American voting rights activist, and civil rights leader.

6. John Muir

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A Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of wilderness preservation, infamous for his nature writings in the Sierra Nevada and petitioning the U.S. Congress for the establishment of both Yosemite and Sequoia National Park.

7. Pete Seeger

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A lifelong American folk singer and activist.

8. Sojourner Truth

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An American abolitionist and women’s rights activist, born into slavery, but escaped in 1826.

9. W.E.B. Du Bois

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An American sociologist, historian, life-long civil rights advocate, pan-africanist, author, co-founder of the NAACP, graduate of Harvard, and the first African American to earn a doctorate.

10. Daisy Bates

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An American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the integration of public schools in the U.S.

11. Edward Abbey

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An American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticisms of public land policy, and anarchist political views.

12. Anna Elizabeth Dickenson

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An American orator, lecturer, and advocate for the abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage, known for being the first woman to speak before the United States Congress.

13. Enos Mills

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An American naturalist and homesteader, known as the main figure behind the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park.

14. Harriet Tubman

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An American abolitionist, suffragist, and humanitarian, famous for escaping slavery and helping to rescue over 300 slaves via the Underground Railroad.

15. Rachel Carson

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An American Marine Biologist and conservationist whose book, Silent Spring, is credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

16. Frederick Douglass

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An American social reformer, orator, writer, statesman, abolitionist leader, and former slave, infamous for his dazzling oratory and incisive anti-slavery writings.

17. Abraham Lincoln

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The 16th President of the United States.

18. Martin Luther King Jr.

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An American pastor, activist, and humanitarian, known his advocacy of non-violent civil disobedience, and for his leadership during the Civil Rights Movement.

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