Civil Rights Leaders

Aung San Suu Kyi
Biography of the Burmese woman fighting for democracy and freedom in her homeland.
http://homepage.oanet.com/jaywhy/assk.htm

Chavez, Cesar
Biography of the civil rights and labor leader who founded the United Farm Workers.
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Chavez.html

Delany, Martin
Tells about the black nationalist who labored to see newly-freed slaves treated fairly and who urged a return to Africa. Includes excerpts from his writings.
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/home.htm

Elijah Muhammad
Black nationalist and Nation of Islam spiritual leader who rejected Christianity as the religion of the oppressor.
http://gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/muhammad_e.htm

Menchu, Rigoberta
Biography of the Guatemalan political worker active in labor, helping subsistence farmers, and human rights groups.
http://homepage.oanet.com/jaywhy/rigoberta.htm

Saro-Wiwa, Kenule Beeson
Biography of Nigerian writer, environmentalist, and political leader of the Ogoni. In English and French.
http://homepage.oanet.com/jaywhy/ken.htm

Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr. (1932-)
From the Biographical directory of the United States Congress.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Y000028