Introduction Benjamin Lay : the first anti-slavery crusader Lydia Maria Child : not all white suffragists Maggie Walker : using the tools of the master Ida B. Wells : intersectionality pioneer Eugene Debs : the American path to socialism Clara Lemlich : a revolutionary life Frank Little : the martyr Elizabeth Gurley Flynn : a rebel life Myles Horton : organizing the South for justice Lucy Randolph Mason : to win these rights Clint Jencks : El Palomino Mike Quill : the power of a union Robert Williams : organizing through armed self-defense Ella Baker : give people light and they will find their own way Bob Moses : the organizer of Mississippi Yuri Kochiyama : the late-life organizer Daniel Berrigan : the power of religious example Barbara Gittings : the mother of the gay civil rights movement Richard Oakes : the fight for Indigenous justice Dolores Huerta : a living legend Conclusion