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Prof. Tran Van Dinh (1923-2011) a native of Vietnam, served in the Vietnamese diplomatic corps in Thailand, Burma and Washington D.C.  A professor of international politics and communications, he taught at Temple University, where he chaired the Departme...

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Ambassador Andrew Young  (1932-  ), is best known for his years of service on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s where he was a co-worker and close companion of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership C...

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Mrs. Nuong Van Dinh Tran (1928 – 2013) was born in Vietnam where, as a young adult, she was a leader in the Viet Minh movement against French colonialism. Mrs. Van Dinh Tran was a painter and printmaker whose work is in the permanent collections of the ...

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Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons (1944 – ) is a human rights activist, a scholar of women in Islam and member of the faculty in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida, Gainesville. A former leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...

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Ms. Ruby Sales (1948 – ) is a grassroots activist and eloquent public theologian whose current work focusses on the fight against racist state-sanctioned violence and for the protection and defense of African American youth. She is a veteran of the ...

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Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942 – ) is a lauded musician, songleader, historian of African American religious music and human rights activist. She is founder and former director of Sweet Honey in the Rock, the internationally-known black women’s ...

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Rev. James Lawson (1928 – ), former pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, is a longtime peace and justice activist. One of the freedom movement’s earliest teachers of non-violence, Lawson was a conscientious objector during the ...

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Ms. Dolores Huerta (1930 – ) was co-founder, with Cesar Chavez, of United Farm Workers of America (UFW). Huerta has worked for more than five decades as a leader in the movement to secure basic rights for the nation’s agricultural workers. She was...

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Mr. Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales (1928-2005), poet, activist and amateur boxer, was one of the national leaders of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Gonzales and his wife, Geraldine Gonzales, created the Denver-based “Crusade for Justice.” ...

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Ms. Julia Esquivel (1930 – ) is a Guatemalan poet, theologian and peace activist. Ms. Esquivel lived in exile from her country for nearly a decade as a result of her work on behalf of justice for indigenous Mayan people. Author of two collections of...

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