Social Activist Famous Names Starting with Letter C

An Argentine executive, cooperative banking leader, and politician.Carlos Heller was born in rural V

An Argentine executive, cooperative banking leader, and politician.Carlos Heller was born in rural Villa Dominguez (near Villaguay, Entre Ríos Province), in 1940, to a Jewish family. The Hellers relocated to Buenos Aires in 1950, and Carlos completed his secondary schooling in a vocational school. He married Ether Sosa in 1962, and the couple had two children. Losing his post in an auto parts manufacturer due to layoffs, Heller was hired as an administrative assistant in one of Buenos Aires' then-numerous credit unions, in 1963; in 1974, he was named to the board of directors of the Instituto Movilizador de Fondos Cooperativos (Argentine credit unions' coordinating body).

Was an Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist.Carlos Francisco Sergio Mugica was born in Bueno

Was an Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist.Carlos Francisco Sergio Mugica was born in Buenos Aires, in 1930, into a privileged background. His father, Adolfo Mugica, had been one of the founders of the Conservative Party (opponents of suffrage activist and populist President Hipólito Yrigoyen), and his mother was Carmen Echagüe - herself born to one of Argentina's premier landowners. Mugica was the only one of seven siblings to have completed both his primary and secondary education in secular schools, and he graduated from the prestigious public college preparatory school, the National College of Buenos Aires.

Was a French socialist, journalist, and feminist best known under the pen name Séverine.Around 1880

Was a French socialist, journalist, and feminist best known under the pen name Séverine.Around 1880 Caroline Rémy became involved with Jules Vallès' socialist publication, Cri du Peuple. Vallès eventually gave her control over the newspaper due to his poo

Was a United States journalist and Indian activist; he is also acclaimed as a historian, photographe

Was a United States journalist and Indian activist; he is also acclaimed as a historian, photographer, poet and librarian.In 1884, Lummis was working for a newspaper in Cincinnati when he was offered a job with the Los Angeles Times. At that time, Los Angeles had a population of only 12,000. Lummis decided to make the 3,500-mile journey from Cincinnati to Los Angeles on foot, taking 143 days, all the while sending weekly dispatches to the paper chronicling his trip. The trip began in September and lasted through the winter. He suffered a broken arm and the heavy snows of New Mexico, yet the trip left him enamored with the Southwest and its Spanish and Native American inhabitants. In 1892, his writings during the trip were published as a book, A Tramp Across the Continent.

Was a freedom fighter, parliamentarian and popular leader of farmers in Rajasthan, India. He was bor

Was a freedom fighter, parliamentarian and popular leader of farmers in Rajasthan, India. He was born at village Khaira-Chhota of princely state Patiala on 10 May 1914 in a Jat Hindu family of Sunda gotra. His father's name was Bhairaram and mother's name was Jivani. His family migrated to village Saudanpur and finally to village Fefana of Nohar Tehsil of princely state Bikaner.

Was born about 1798-1800 near Suisun Bay, California in California. Sem-Yeto was a famous chief and

Was born about 1798-1800 near Suisun Bay, California in California. Sem-Yeto was a famous chief and leader of the Suisunes tribe, a Patwin people of the Suisun Bay region of California. Chief Solano was a charismatic, tall and notable Native American leader in Alta California, because of his alliance, friendship and eventually the support of his entire tribe to General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo of Sonoma, in military and political excursions around Sonoma County and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Was an HIV-positive activist who promoted the view that HIV was not the cause of AIDS.[1][2] She was

Was an HIV-positive activist who promoted the view that HIV was not the cause of AIDS.[1][2] She was the founder of Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, an organization which questions the link between HIV and AIDS and encourages HIV-positive pregnant women to avoid anti-HIV medication.[3] Maggiore authored and self-published the book What If Everything You Thought You Knew about AIDS Was Wrong?

Was a member of the French Resistance and a French communist militant. She committed herself to the

Was a member of the French Resistance and a French communist militant. She committed herself to the French Communist Party in 1934 and helped found the Union of Young Girls in France (l'Union des Jeunes Filles de France) in 1936, with Danielle Casanova, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, and Jeannette Vermeersch. In 1937, she married Victor Michaut, a communist leader; the marriage lasted ten years.

Was a volunteer who worked in a poor neighbourhood in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and

Was a volunteer who worked in a poor neighbourhood in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and who was shot and killed by the Santa Fe Provincial Police during the December 2001 riots, while he tried to stop police agents from firing at a school.Lepratti was born in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos, and studied Law between 1983 and 1985, while at the same time serving as a cooperator of the Salesians of Don Bosco. After that, he entered the Ceferino Namuncurá Salesian Seminary in Funes, Santa Fe (a town in the Greater Rosario area), as a coadjutor brother. He studied Philosophy and became a professor.

Was, along with his wife, Margaret (1933 - 2007), an anti-apartheid activist and political exile.In

Was, along with his wife, Margaret (1933 - 2007), an anti-apartheid activist and political exile.In 1934 Colin Legum began working at the Sunday Express in Johannesburg. Later he became became the newspaper's political correspondent. He joined the South African Labour Party and, in1942, he was elected to the Johannesburg City Council.In 1951 he joined the UK's Sunday Observer. He served as the newspaper's diplomatic editor and its Commonwealth correspondent. In 1960 he married Margaret Jean Roberts. In 1964 Colin and Margaret Legum published South Africa: Crisis for the West, in which they argued for economic sanctions against the South African government to bring an end to apartheid. In 1968 Colin Legum became editor of the annual Africa Contemporary Record. Legum was the author of over 20 books including Congo Disaster (1960), Pan-Africanism: A Brief History (1962), and Africa: A Handbook of the Continent (1962).