Baez, Joan (Staten Island)
Folk singer who did "Diamonds & Rust"
Famous Activists from New York
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Brown, Antoinette (Henrietta)
The first clergywoman in the United States -
Burke, Tarana (The Bronx)
The woman credited with starting the Me Too movement -
Byrne, Ethel Higgins (Corning)
Margaret Sanger’s sister and co-founder of the first birth control clinic -
Coffin, William Sloane (New York City)
The Yale chaplain who opposed the U.S. war in Vietnam -
Day, Dorothy (Brooklyn)
Laywoman who co-founded The Catholic Worker -
Farrow, Ronan (New York City)
Mia Farrow's son who's on MSNBC -
Fonda, Jane (New York City)
Outspoken Oscar-winning actress and Ted Turner's ex-wife -
Goldberg, Whoopi (New York City)
Star of the Hollywood comedy Sister Act -
Howe, Julia Ward (New York City)
The abolitionist who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic -
Lovelace, Linda (The Bronx)
The star of the sexually explicit film Deep Throat -
Milk, Harvey (Woodmere)
The gay San Francisco city official gunned down in 1978 -
Sanger, Margaret (Corning)
Co-founder of what became Planned Parenthood -
Sharpton, Al (Brooklyn)
New York's African-American preacher, activist and presidential candidate -
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (Johnstown)
Co-founder of the Seneca Falls Convention -
Treadwell, Timothy (Long Island)
Bear-loving mauling victim from the documentary Grizzly Man -
Truth, Sojourner (Hurley)
The freed slave and activist who said "Ain't I a Woman?"