The incidents included the murder of a civil rights activist in Mississippi and the killings of four young girls in Alabama.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Centuries later, a British doctor became an activist for better care for the dying in the nineteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Ron Rivera,a ceramics artist and activist in the group Potters for Peace, saw it and recognized its value.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

Others include anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass, birth control activist Margaret Sanger and Special Olympics founder Eunice Shriver.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Margaret Brown was a social and political activist in the formative years of the modern American West.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

With a computer,recorder,and camera, this language activist can work toward creating a dictionary of the Ishir language.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Centuries later,a British doctor became an activist for better care for the dying in the nineteen forties.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison started a paper in eighteen thirty-one with the purpose of ending slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

The Center for Biological Diversity, an activist group, recently launched a boycott of the prized fish.

VOA: special.2010.12.14

This week on our program, we remember three Irish-Americans: the labor activist Mother Jones, the early photographer Matthew Brady and the entertainer Bing Crosby.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Emma Willard was teaching in Vermont when she became an activist for women's rights in education.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

It shows the deaf and blind activist and writer Helen Keller as a young child.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Gaylord Nelson hired a student and activist named Denis Hayes to lead this special campaign.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Bono, the social activist and lead singer of the Irish rock group U2, usually attends.

VOA: special.2009.01.23

A group of black activist women in Montgomery was known as the Women's Political Council.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The actress Angelina Jolie is another famous American who has become a social activist.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

He was an athlete and a social activist who died before he was fifty.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

He became a businessman, a political activist and a strong supporter of civil rights.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Ben Donnie, an environmental activist, said the Liberian food supply is sure to suffer.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

And he is an activist who fought the policy of racial separation, called apartheid.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

But Fox still acts on television, writes books and is an activist for Parkinson's.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Her grandmother was a social worker and an activist for women's voting rights.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

A critic once described Miller as an activist for the common man.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Among those taking part was twenty-one year old political activist Quiteria Guirengane.

VOA: special.2011.06.24

The environmental activist group Friends of the Earth says it is dangerous.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

But Mrs.Johnson was also an influential environmental activist,tireless campaigner and successful businesswoman.

VOA: special.2010.09.26

She was an activist, humanitarian and adviser to presidents including Barack Obama.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Leilani Munter is a professional race car driver and an environmental activist.

VOA: special.2009.11.06