Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester in 1858. She was a political activist and leader of the British women's rights movement, "Women's Social and Political Union", which fought for women's social and political rights, especially the right to vote.
Sophie Scholl (1921 - 1943) was a key member of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose, which distributed leaflets...
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian and political prisoner. Being an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, he helped...
Clara Campoamor (1888 – 1972) was a Spanish lawyer, writer, politician and defender of women’s rights. Campoamor was a pioneer in many things: she...