PEACE, JUSTICE, ECOLOGY LEADERS

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.

 

  AUGUST BIRTHDAYS

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 for peace and justice

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 satirist of US and human follies, author of “War Prayer”.

 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