Bethune, Mary McLeod (July 10)
The founder of the National Council for Negro Women
Famous Cancer Activists
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Buck, Pearl S. (June 26)
The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Good Earth -
Ebadi, Shirin (June 21)
Winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize -
Evers, Medgar (July 2)
Assassinated Mississippi civil rights leader -
Goldman, Emma (June 27)
The anarchist-feminist who founded 'Mother Earth' monthly -
Keller, Helen (June 27)
The blind and deaf woman who became a famous activist -
Sheehan, Cindy (July 10)
The "Peace Mom" who protested against the Iraq War -
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy (July 10)
The founder of the Special Olympics -
Snowden, Edward (June 21)
The dude who leaked top-secret info about U.S. domestic surveillance -
Wells, Ida B. (July 16)
The woman journalist who campaigned against lynching -
West, Cornel (July 2)
The African American Studies professor who wrote Race Matters -
Yousafzai, Malala (July 12)
The Pakistani schoolgirl who won the Nobel Peace Prize -
Yunus, Muhammad (June 28)
The Nobel Prize-winning "banker to the poor"