Biography Possibilities


  1.  Mahatma Gandhi - Indian Leader and World Influence (1940's), Passive Resistance.
  2.  John Stuart Mill - Philosopher, Woman's Rights Activist. Liberal Member of Parliament for Westminster.
  3.  Dr. Condoleezza Rice - National Security Advisor, Distinguished Teacher.
  4.  Linda Chavez - Book Author, Editor of American Educator. President of the Center for Equal Opportunity, based in Washington, D.C.
  5.  Marjorie Agosín - Poet, fiction writer and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College.
  6. Mario Savio - Activist, student leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley. Top 100 speeches, "An End to History."
  7.  Elvia Alvarado - Peasant leader in Honduras.
  8. Michael Albert - Activist, founder Z Magazine and System Operator of Z Magazine's web.
  9. Gloria Anzaldua - Feminism, Chicano Studies, and Creative Writing teacher.
  10. Shirley Chisholm - Black woman who ran for candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States. Top 100 speeches, "For the Equal Rights Amendment."
  11. Hugh Vasquez - Co-Founder of the multicultural youth program, New Bridges.
  12. Emmeline Pankhurst - founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Chief speaker at rallies held at the Royal Concert Hall in 1910 and 1912.
  13. Earl Brassey - Hastings NUWSS supporter and speaker, husband of Sybil, Countess Brassey.
  14. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - lead in holding the first Woman's Rights Convention in New York 1948.
  15. Antoinette L. Brown - first woman to be formally ordained to the pastorate in the U.S.
  16. Susan B. Anthony - Co-Founder of the first U.S. woman's suffrage organization 1869.
  17. Sara Spencer - the first woman to address a U.S. presidential convention (1876 Republican).
  18. Anne Martin - the first woman to run for U.S. Senate (Nevada, 1918, 1920).
  19. Ruth Bran Owen - the first woman foreign diplomat for the U.S. (1933).
  20. Sirimavo Bandaranaike - the world's first woman prime minister 1960.
  21. Thurgood Marshall - Attorney in Brown vs. Board of Education trial overturning the "separate but equal" (segregation) doctrine for schools. Also First Black Supreme Court Justice.
  22. Jesse Jackson - Started Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity.) Top 100 Speeches.
  23. Langston Hughes - Writer, poet; wrote about respecting ones heritage.
  24. Martin Luther King JR. - Number one speech of all time, "I Have a dream." Key leader in Civil Rights movement.
  25. John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States. 2nd best speech of all time, Inaugural address.
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt - 32nd President of the United States 3rd best speech of all time, Inaugural address. President of the U.S.A.
  27. Barbara Jordan - The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress from the South. Top 100 speeches, Keynote speaker to the Democratic National Convention.
  28. Cesar Estrada Chavez - American agrarian labor leader. Community Service Organization (CSO) general director.
  29. Mary Fisher - A television producer and an assistant to the President of the United States. Artist and AIDS activist. Top 100 speeches, Speech to the Republican National Convention, "A Whisper of AIDS."
  30. Lyndon B. Johnson - 36th President of the United States. Top 100 speeches, Address to Congress on the Voting Rights Act ("We Shall Overcome.")
  31. Mario Cuomo - New York State's 52nd Governor. Top 100 speeches, Keynote speech to Democratic National Convention.
  32. Douglas MacArthur - Top 100 speeches, Farewell Address to Congress, "Old Soldiers Shall Never Die."
  33. Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President of the United States. Top 100 Speeches, "The Man with the Muckrake."
  34. Robert F. Kennedy - Senator. Top 100 speeches, Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King.
  35. Woodrow Wilson - 28th President of the United States. Top 100 speeches, War Message, "The War must be made safe for Democracy."
  36. Clarence Darrow - Delivered a twelve-hour long plea to save his young clients' lives, his moving summation stands as the most eloquent attack on the death penalty ever delivered in an American courtroom. (Top 100 speeches, Plea for Mercy at the Trial of Leopold and Loeb.)
  37. Russell Conwell - A writer, Civil War Veteran, and lawyer. Top 100 speeches, "Acres of Diamonds."
  38. Huey Pierce Long - Lawyer, State railroad commissioner; Governor of Louisiana. fostered the distribution of free school books and equalized educational opportunities throughout Louisiana. Top 100 speeches, "Every Man a King."
  39. Anna Howard Shaw - Ordained Methodist minister, physician, temperance lecturer, woman's suffrage orator, and peace advocate. Member of a Big Rapids, Michigan pioneer family. Top 100 speeches, "The Fundamental Principle of a Republic."
  40. Harry S. Truman - 33rd President of the United States. Top 100 speeches, Address to Congress on Greece and Turkey ("The Truman Doctrine.")
  41. William Faulkner - Top 100 speeches, Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature. Writer/Poet.
  42. Hillary Rodham Clinton - Top 100 speeches, Address to the U.N. ("Women's Rights are Human Rights.") First Lady to President Clinton.
  43. Barbara Bush - Honorary Chairman of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. A strong advocate of volunteerism Mrs. Bush helped many causes--including the homeless, AIDS, the elderly, and school volunteer programs. Top 100 speeches, Commencement Speech at Wellesley College, "Choices and Change."
  44. John L. Lewis - Led over half-a-million mine workers on strike, demanding wage increases. Responsible for the creation of the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund. was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian decoration, by President Lyndon Johnson. Top 100 speeches, "Labor and the Nation (The Rights of Labor.")
  45. Eleanor Roosevelt - Top 100 speeches, "The Struggle for Human Rights." First Lady, and Rights activist.
  46. Emma Goldman - Involved in the campaign for women's suffrage and birth control information. Spent time in jail and was accused of influencing murder. Top 100 speeches, Address to the Jury.
  47. Anita Hill - A law professor at the University of Oklahoma who came forward with accusations that Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. Top 100 speeches, Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  48. Joseph Welch - Top 100 speeches, Defense of Fred Fisher at the Army - McCarthy Hearings ("Have you no sense of decency?")
  49. José Martí - Writer, philosopher, poet and attorney born in Havana. He was the architect of the independence of Cuba.
  50. Rigoberta Menchú Tum - a Guatemalan activist for the rights of the indigenous people and a winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.
  51. Sir Alexander Bustamante - he used the media to criticize the prevailing political system and its attendant social problems. He started the Industrial Trade Union in 1938.
  52. Linda Chavez-Thompson - executive vice president of the AFL-CIO since1995, is the first person of color to hold an executive office of that union.
  53. Joseph Marion Hernandez - the first Hispanic to serve in the U.S. Congress, as a delegate from the Spanish territory of Florida.
  54. Nydia Velázquez - In 1992 became the first Puerto Rican woman elected to Congress.
  55. Sonia Manzano - The bilingual Maria on Sesame Street, also an Emmy award-winning writer for the show.
  56. Jose M. Lazaro - Translator for the U.N.
  57. Bernard Patrick - Incarcerated activist for the rights of prisoners, and for human dignity.
  58. Shol Dawa - one of the first Tibetans to be arrested when the "liberalisation" period began in the early 1980s following the excesses of the Cultural Revolution.
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Larry J. Colby
Eastern Michigan University
April 26, 2003
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