Activism
People remembered for their work in activism. 28 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929 – 1968 · Baptist minister and civil rights leaderThe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
233 candles · 11 tributes
Rosa Parks1913 – 2005 · Civil rights activistI would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free.
228 candles · 14 tributes
Jesse Jackson1941 – 2026 · Baptist ministerCivil rights leader who told America: I am somebody. Keep hope alive.
195 candles · 23 tributes
Amelinha Teles1944 – 2026 · JournalistBrazilian feminist and dictatorship survivor who turned torture testimony into law, memory and women's organising.
95 candles · 8 tributes
John Lewis1940 – 2020 · Civil rights leaderApostle of nonviolence who made good trouble for justice.
85 candles · 9 tributes
Jerome Smith1939 – 2026 · Civil rights activistFreedom Rider who mentored Treme children and demanded humanity be respected.
79 candles · 7 tributes
Wanda Traczyk-Stawska1927 – 2026 · Warsaw Uprising Home Army gunner/liaisonWarsaw Uprising soldier who taught courage, dignity, and the duty to answer evil at once.
72 candles · 5 tributes
Margarita Papandreou1923 – 2026 · Women's rights activistAmerican-born feminist who remade Greek women's rights as First Lady and EGE founder.
53 candles · 5 tributes
Sandra Peña2011 – 2025 · StudentA Seville teenager whose death forced Spain to confront school bullying.
43 candles · 7 tributes
Susie Wasdin† 2026 · Philanthropist and fundraiserCocoa Village philanthropist whose joyful galas raised millions for Brevard causes.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Marc de La Ménardière1982 – 2026 · Documentary filmmakerFilmmaker of En quête de sens who left corporate life to help others rethink how we live.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Brooke Eby1988 – 2026 · ALS advocateALS advocate who used humor and honesty to make a terminal disease approachable for millions.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Hermann Höllenreiner1933 – 2026 · Holocaust survivor and contemporary witnessSinto boy who survived Auschwitz and, after decades of silence, made sure Germany would remember.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Ernest Hoolihan1933 – 2026 · Aboriginal community leaderUncle Ernie: homes, dignity and half a century of service in Townsville.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Alan Thornett1937 – 2026 · Car workerCowley militant and Trotskyist who taught himself Marxism and Earth science: nothing can be built on a dead planet.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Mary Morello1923 – 2026 · High school teacher and free speech activistTeacher, free speech activist and lifelong champion of the oppressed. Forever with the Rebels of Light & Song.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Mélanie Berger-Volle1921 – 2026 · French Resistance fighterVienna-born resistance fighter who escaped the Gestapo and spent a century warning the young against fascism.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Della "Udella" Maffiola1927 – 2026 · Motorola inspectorA Chicago mother who turned grief after Our Lady of the Angels into lasting school fire-safety reform.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Tom Houck1947 – 2026 · Civil rights activistHe drove Dr. King, fought for the vote, and spent his life making sure Atlanta never forgot its history.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Pamela Atkinson1933 – 2026 · NurseUtah's Mother Teresa, who carried socks, food and hope to her homeless friends for decades.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Dafroza Gauthier1954 – 2026 · Chemical engineerThirty years pursuing justice for Tutsi genocide victims on French soil.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Harriet Hancock1936 – 2026 · ActivistMother of SC Pride who built PFLAG, PALSS, and a home for LGBTQ South Carolinians.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Lam Wing-kee1955 – 2026 · BooksellerThe Hong Kong bookseller who would not bow to power, and carried Causeway Bay Books into exile.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Dolores Huerta1930 – 2026 · Labor leader and civil rights activistShe organized farmworkers for seventy years and taught a movement to say yes we can.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Ken Sleight1929 – 2026 · River guideThe river guide who became Seldom Seen Smith, and never stopped fighting for Glen Canyon.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Jacques Proulx1939 – 2026 · FarmerThe Saint-Camille farmer who led the UPA for 12 years and gave rural Quebec a voice of its own.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Diane Munday1931 – 2026 · Political activistALRA campaigner who helped win the Abortion Act 1967 and co-founded BPAS.
4 candles · 1 tributes
María Asunción Milá1919 – 2026 · Human rights activistA mother of twelve from Seville who would not leave this world until the death penalty was condemned.
3 candles · 1 tributes