CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF LEADERS FOR PEACE, JUSTICE, AND
ECOLOGY Compiled by Dick Bennett, January 2013.
A start. Whom should I add? All of these have appeared in OMNI’s
“INMOtion” Monthly Newsletter.
JANUARY INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND JUSTICE HEROES
BIRTHDAYS
January 8, 1885, A. J. Muste, one of our
country’s greatest advocates of nonviolence and pacifism
January 11, 1885, Alice Paul, leader of
radical wing of the U.S.
women’s suffrage movement
January 14, 1875, Albert Schweitzer, German
humanitarian, Christian theologian, medical doctor in Africa
January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1950s-60s
Civil Rights
leader
January 22, 1930, Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Austrian
anti-war activist
January 27, 1938:
Roy Bourgeois, M.M., founder School of the Americas
protest, priesthood revoked for supporting women’s ordination
January 29, 1737, Thomas Paine, a father of US Revolution
FEBRUARY INTERNATIONAL PEACE,
JUSTICE, ECOLOGY BIRTHDAYS
Frederick Douglass:
Feb. 1818 (day unknown): leading slavery abolitionist
Feb. 4, 1913, Rosa Parks, civil rights leader
Feb. 9, 1944, Alice Walker, writer
Feb. 14, 1920, Carrie Chapman Catt, founder League of Women Voters
Feb. 15, 1820, Susan B. Anthony, suffragist
Feb. 20, 1805,
Angelina Grimke, slavery
abolitionist
Feb. 22, 1900, Meridel LeSueur, feminist, writer, and justice activist
February 22, 1936, Nader Khalili, architect
Feb. 23, 1868, W.E.B. DuBois, early (post-slavery) civil rights leader
MARCH BIRTHDAYS
OUR PEACE, JUSTICE, ECOLOGY TRADITION
Theodor Seuss Geisel, 3-2-1904: author
of “The Butter Battle Book”
Albert Einstein, 3-14-1897, physicist, anti-war
Sojourner Truth, 3-18?-1797?
abolitionist
David Susuki, 3-24-1936,
defending the planet
Gloria Steinem, 3-25-1934, women's equity and rights
Cesar Chavez, 3-31-1927, farm worker rights
APRIL BIRTHDAYS
April 8, 1898, Paul Robeson, actor, singer,
Black liberation leader
April 13, 1743,
Thomas Jefferson, founding father of U.S.
MAY BIRTHDAYS
May 1, 1830, Mary Harris “Mother Jones”, American labor and community
organizer
May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingale, founder of the modern nursing profession
May 12, somewhere around 400 BCE, Buddha, founder of Buddhism
May 19, 1925. Malcom X, advocate for rights of blacks
May 24, 1941, Bob Dylan, musician and reluctant figurehead for social
unrest in the 60’s
May 31, 1819. Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist
JUNE BIRTHDAYS
June 27, 1869, Emma Goldman, anarchist and
feminist
June 27, 1880, Helen Keller, author, lecturer, political activist,
JULY BIRTHDAYS
July 6, Dalai Lama.
July 10, 1875, Mary McLeod Bethune, black educator and
activist.
July 12, 1817. Henry David
Thoreau, defender of the land and war protester.
July 14, 1912. Woody
Guthrie, singer, song-writer for economic and social justice.
July 19, 1922: George McGovern, Presidential peace candidate, global
food, full employment, and universal healthcare advocate.
July 22, 1849: Emma Lazarus,
author of “Colossus” poem on Statue of Liberty
July 30, 1919. Primo Levi, Holocaust
survivor and chronicler.
Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn, 8-7-1890: Wobbly, agitator, founder of ACLU
Robert Redford,
8-18-1937: actor, environmentalist,
filmmaker
Henry Bergh, 8-29-1813:
founded ASPCA American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS
Jane Addams, 9- 6-1860,
social reformer
Oscar Arias, 9-13-1940,
Nobel Peace Prize
Margaret Sanger,
9-14-1883, birth control advocate
Henry Salt, 9-20-1851, advocate of
animal rights and vegetarianism
OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS
Jimmy Carter, Oct. 1, 1924, founder
of Carter Center
Nat Turner, Oct. 2, 1800, led
slave revolt
Gandhi Oct. 2, 1869
Fannie Lou Hamer, Oct. 6,
1917, civil rights activist
Joe Hill, Oct. 7, 1879, IWW
organizer and songwriter
Fridtjob Nansen, Oct. 10,
1861, great humanitarian little known in the US
John Woolman, Oct. 19, 1720, Quaker
NOVEMBER
November 8, 1897: Dorothy
Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
November 9, 1943: Roger Allen LaPorte. immolated himself in front of the UN against
the Vietnam War, November 10, 1965.
November 12, 1815: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist.
November 16, 1890: George SELDES. Investigative
journalist, author of newsletter In Fact,
1940-50, opponent of Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
November 27, 1928: The
Most Venerable Thich Quang Do,
Unified Buddhist Church of
Vietnam critic of successive Vietnamese governments.
November 28,
1757: William Blake, British poet on origins and cures of violence.
November 30,
1835: Mark Twain, US
DECEMBER
December 3,
1896: Guy F. Hershberger, leading
N. American Mennonite peace thinker post-WWII
Dec. 11, 1922: Grace
Paley, poet and peace
activist
Dec. 14, 1852: Daniel De Leon, socialist scholar
and labor organizer
Dec. 18, 1946: Stephen Biko, South African/Azanian leader
of Black Consciousness Movement, tortured and murdered
Dec. 25, 1875: Jessie Wallace Hughan, a founder of War
Resisters League
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