Social Activist Famous Names Starting with Letter N

Was a Trotskyist leader from Argentina. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from before Wor

Was a Trotskyist leader from Argentina. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from before World War II until his death.During the 1953-1963 split in the Fourth International he backed the International Committee faction led by the Socialist Workers Party (USA). For much of this time he published a journal called Palabra Obrera, and organised a group which sought to act as the left wing of the Peronist movement[citation needed].

Was a South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist.Nan Cross worked held a number of

Was a South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist.Nan Cross worked held a number of positions at various projects during her career as a social worker. She actively worked African Children’s Feeding Scheme.[1] On June 16, 1976, Cross was working in Soweto for the Johannesburg City Council, which ran the Orlando sheltered employment workshop.[1] She became trapped by the start of the Soweto Uprising against the Apartheid-era South African government. She described her escape from the Soweto riots as a "terrifying experience."[1]

A noted social worker of India and a member of the Rajya Sabha, by nomination. He is also a recipien

A noted social worker of India and a member of the Rajya Sabha, by nomination. He is also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan award. He was born in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan in 1942.He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1991 by the Government of India in recognition of dedicated services rendered in helping to reduce the anti-social consumption of opium by organizing systematic and scientific de-addiction programmes, which have benefited thousands of rural and urban men, women and children drawn from all strata of society since 1980. He established Sucheta Kriplani Shiksha Niketan, a unique residential Senior Secondary School to impart free and quality education to the physically disabled children in 1991.

Was a Polish populist political activist, member of the agrarian Polish People's Party, a prisoner a

Was a Polish populist political activist, member of the agrarian Polish People's Party, a prisoner at the Bereza Kartuska prison and during World War II a leader of Peasants' Battalions (BCh) a anti-Nazi underground resistance movement, with the rank of Colonel,[5].Before the war Wiatr studied Law and Economics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, where he became active in youth organizations associated with the Ludowcy (agrarian) movement. Between 1937 and 1939 he was the chief of the People's Party (Stronnictwo Ludowe or SL) in Nowy Sacz.[3] He helped to organize a farmer's strike in the Beskidy region, for which he was arrested and imprisoned at Bereza Kartuska for six weeks, along with other political activists.[3]

Was a militant anarchist and feminist who participated on the barricades at the Commune de Paris of

Was a militant anarchist and feminist who participated on the barricades at the Commune de Paris of 1871. She was deported to Nouvelle Calédonie with Louise Michel. She worked as a bookbinder and retailer in Paris, and then became a socialist activist. In 1864, the International Workers Association (IWA, aka First International) was created in London in the midst of the agitated social climate in Europe. In August 1864, the bookbinders all went on strike in the middle of a very large conflict

Was a parliamentarian, freedom fighter, social reformer and popular farmer leader of Marwar region i

Was a parliamentarian, freedom fighter, social reformer and popular farmer leader of Marwar region in Rajasthan, India. He was born in a Rad (also spelled Rar (Hindi:????)) gotra Jat Hindu family of village Kuchera in Nagaur district in Rajasthan on 20 October 1921. His father’s name was Thana Ram Mirdha.

Is a Chicano political leader and immigrant rights activist in Southern California, although his fam

Is a Chicano political leader and immigrant rights activist in Southern California, although his family's roots precede the annexation of half of Mexico in the 1846-48 Mexican-American War, and of immigrant stock from Sonora, Mexico. Lopez is the president of the Mexican American Political Association and the national director of the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana (formerly the Hermandad Mexicana Nacional), a community service and advocacy organization for Mexican and Latin American immigrants throughout the United States. His importance in Los Angeles politics has been compared by the Los Angeles Times to that of Al Sharpton in New York and Jesse Jackson in Chicago.[1]

Was a white South African trade union leader and labour activist either murdered by the Apartheid re

Was a white South African trade union leader and labour activist either murdered by the Apartheid regime's 'security forces', or driven to suicide by torture.Aggett worked as a physician in Black hospitals (under apartheid hospitals were segregated) in Umtata, Tembisa and later at Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, where he became a popular and active trade union member, learning to speak Zulu. He was appointed organiser of the Transvaal Food and Canning Workers’ Union, and helped organise a successful strike against Fatti’s and Moni’s in Islando, which later spread further afield.

Is a proponent of a multilingual South Africa and a former revolutionary who spent ten years on Robb

Is a proponent of a multilingual South Africa and a former revolutionary who spent ten years on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela.Alexander by 1957 was already radicalised and a member of the Cape Peninsula Students' Union, an affiliate of the Unity Movement of South Africa[4]. He joined the African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) which was established in 1960. However he was ejected from APDUSA in 1961 and with Dulcie September, Abrahams, Fikile Bam, Andreas Shipinga, Marcus Solomon, Xenophon Pitt and others, formed a study group of nine members in July 1962, known as the Yu Chi Chan Club (YCCC). Yu Chi Chan is the Chinese name for guerrilla warfare, which Mao Tse-Tung used. The YCCC disbanded in late 1962 to be replaced by the National Liberation Front (NLF) of which Alexander was a founder.

Was a noted Gandhian, social activist and a nominated Member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of

Was a noted Gandhian, social activist and a nominated Member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Her father P Y Deshpande was a Marathi writer.Deshpande was born to Vimala and P Y Deshpande in Nagpur on October 19, 1929, and completed her education there. She was also a Rajya Sabha member since 1997 and her name was considered briefly for the President's post — a nomination that eventually went to Pratibha Patil.

Was a Turkish-born Armenian petroleum magnate and socialite.

Was a Turkish-born Armenian petroleum magnate and socialite.