He supported the Essex County Antislavery Society and criticized the poor treatment of workers at Newburyport cotton factories.

* The Antislavery Poems of John Pierpont, at the Antislavery Literature Project

* The Tocsin, a broadsheet poem by John Pierpont, at the Antislavery Literature Project

Douglass delivered his fiery speech " The Meaning of July Fourth to the Negro " before the Rochester Ladies Antislavery Association at Corinthian Hall, Rochester, on July 5, 1852.

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics.

* June 2 – Battle of Black Jack: Antislavery forces, led by John Brown, defeat proslavery forces in Bleeding Kansas.

Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition ( 2 vol.

No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics.

* Huston, James L. " The Experiential Basis of the Northern Antislavery Impulse.

Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists.

* Pierson, Michael D. Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics.

Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America.

* Speicher, Anna M. The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers.

* Earle, Jonathan H. Jacksonian Antislavery & the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854.

Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition: Greenwood Milestones in African American History.

Antislavery senators opposed further acquisition of slave territory.

Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition: Greenwood Milestones in African American History.

Evangelicalism and the Radical Strain in Southern Antislavery Thought During the 1820s.

From Petitions to Partyism: Antislavery and the Domestication of Maine Politics in the 1840s and 1850s.

* Abzug, Robert H. " The Influence of Garrisonian Abolitionists ' Fears of Slave Violence on the Antislavery Argument, 1829-40.

Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition: Greenwood Milestones in African American History.

" Heroes, Villains, Liberty, and License: the Abolitionist Vision of Wendell Phillips " in Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists ( Louisiana State U. Press, 1979 ): 168-191.

Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform.

* 1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English activist ( d. 1961 )

* October 14 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist ( b. 1876 )

* September 1 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist ( d. 1961 )

* Harriet Tubman, escaped slave and activist on the Underground Railroad

* Harriet Shaw Weaver ( 1876 – 1961 ), feminist political activist and patron of James Joyce, was born in Frodsham.

In May 2007, Harriet Swift, an anti-logging activist from New South Wales was convicted and reprimanded for contempt of Parliament, after she wrote fictitious press releases and letters purporting to be Federal MP Gary Nairn as an April Fools ' Day prank.

The judges were Harriet Pilpel, Attorney, Weil, Gotshal & Manges ; Studs Terkel, author and nationally syndicated radio show host ; and William Worthy, international journalist and civil liberties activist.

He was a cousin of journalist and writer Lyn Irvine, and also of pioneering female surgeon Eleanor Davies Colley and of political activist Harriet Shaw Weaver.

Harriet Shaw Weaver ( 1 September 1876 – 14 October 1961 ) was a political activist and a magazine editor.

Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes ( 1879 – 1933 ) was a Jewish-American socialist activist, writer, birth control advocate, and feminist.

In her book The Shock Doctrine, author and social activist Naomi Klein criticized Friedman's ideology and the principles that guided the economic restructuring that followed the military coups in countries such as Chile and Indonesia, drawing analogies between the way that Friedman proposed using the social " shock " of the coups to create an economic " blank slate " with Ewen Cameron's controversial medical experiments that used electroshock therapy to create a mental " blank slate " in patients with mental disorders.

The idea that “ the personal is the political ”, that is, the notion that personal revelation through art can be a political tool, guided much activist art in its study of the public dimensions to private experience.

In 2004, guided by human rights activist Ansar Burney, an HBO team used a hidden camera to document slavery and torture in secret desert camps where boys under the age of five were trained to race camels, a national sport in the United Arab Emirates.

Sports writer and political activist Jack Scott, who had helped the high-profile fugitives make their way east, arranged for Yoshimura to join them and handle shopping and other public transactions.

The Puerto Rican activist Julio Vizcarrondo had moved the Spanish Abolitionist Society from San Juan de Puerto Rico to Madrid at the request of premier Miguel Prim, himself a former Puerto Rico governor.

In October 2010, Thomas's wife Virginia, a conservative activist, left a voicemail at Hill's office asking that Hill apologize for her 1991 testimony.

An American Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

A spin-off, " People's Park Annex ," was established at the same time by activist citizens of Berkeley on a strip of land above the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway construction along Hearst Avenue northwest of the U. C.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

* Avram Noam Chomsky ( born 1928 ), American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, lecturer, professor emeritus at < font color = 0 > MIT, known for early work in < font color = 0 > transformational grammar and < font color = 0 > A. I.

Elsewhere, at Portobello Barracks, an officer named Bowen Colthurst summarily executed six civilians, including the pacifist nationalist activist, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington.

Anna Rüling, delivering a public speech in 1904 at the request of Hirschfeld, became the first female Uranian activist.

By strange coincidence, in 2002 the most vocal ' Leefbaar Rotterdam ' politician Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed by an animal rights activist at Hilversum Media Park just after finishing a radio interview.

None of the early movies hint at the social activism that would become the hallmark of Keller's later life, although a Disney version produced in 2000 states in the credits that she became an activist for social equality.

He supported political activist and labor leader Thomas Mooney's defense fund, but was repelled by the behavior of some of Mooney's supporters at a rally.

Voight, who was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of an embittered paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-anti-war activist Ron Kovic, with whom Fonda's character falls in love.

His mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes ; 1916 – 1991 ), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005 ), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years.

The results were summarized by historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist Martin Duberman, " Instead of Kinsey's 37 % ( men who had at least one homosexual experience ), Gebhard and Johnson came up with 36. 4 %; the 10 % figure ( men who were " more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55 "), with prison inmates excluded, came to 9. 9 % for white, college-educated males and 12. 7 % for those with less education.

A small number of Slovene activist, mostly from Styria and Carinthia, embraced the Illyrian movement that started in neighboring Croatia and aimed at uniting all South Slavic peoples.

Govan Mbeki had come to the rural Eastern Cape as a political activist after earning two university degrees ; he urged his family to make the ANC their family, and of his children, Thabo Mbeki is the one who most clearly followed that instruction, joining the party at age 14 and devoting his life to it thereafter.

John Haynes Holmes, a Unitarian minister and social activist at The Community Church of New York — Unitarian Universalist was among the founders of both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in 1909 and the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ), chairing the latter for a time.

Also attending were at least one Israeli peace activist ( Uri Avnery, head of Gush Shalom ) and a Christian minister.

** Three thousand student activists at University of California, Berkeley surround and block a police car from taking a CORE volunteer arrested for not showing his ID, when he violated a ban on outdoor activist card tables.

Colonial churchmen such as Sydney's first Catholic archbishop, John Bede Polding strongly advocated for Aboriginal rights and dignity and prominent Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson ( born 1965 ), who was raised at a Lutheran mission in Cape York, has written that Christian missions throughout Australia's colonial history " provided a haven from the hell of life on the Australian frontier while at the same time facilitating colonisation ".

When he arrived and proceeded to meet his Russian colleague, An Jung-geun, a Korean nationalist and independence activist, fired six shots at him.

Many parades still have at least some of the original political or activist character, especially in less accepting settings.

She was present at their first summit in 2002, bringing together founder Eve Ensler, Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban, and a Kenyan activist campaigning to save girls from genital mutilation.