List of Harvard Law School Alumni - Activism

Activism

  • George Thorndike Angell, anti-animal cruelty activist
  • Richard Barnet (1954), disarmament activist and co-founder of the leftist think tank Institute for Policy Studies
  • Larissa Behrendt (LLM 1994), Australian aboriginal rights activist, novelist
  • John P. Davis (LL.B. 1933), African American activist
  • Charles E. Dunbar (LL.B. 1914), civil service reformer
  • George Esser, civil rights advocate
  • Sandra Froman, president of the National Rifle Association
  • Jennifer Gordon, immigrant labor organizer
  • Mark J. Green, public interest author, candidate for Senator from New York (1986), Mayor of New York City (2001) and New York State Attorney General (2006)
  • Archibald Grimké, co-founder of the NAACP
  • Marjorie Heins, free speech and civil liberties advocate
  • Mary Howell (J.D. 1991), fought to open medical schools to women
  • Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International
  • Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute libertarian activist
  • Hans F. Loeser (1950), anti-Vietnam War activist
  • David A. Morse, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for leadership of the International Labor Organization
  • Ethan Nadelmann, anti-War on Drugs activist
  • Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and frequent Green Party presidential candidate
  • Basil O'Connor, polio research advocate and president of the American Red Cross
  • Wendell Phillips (1934), abolitionist and Native American rights advocate
  • Louis L. Redding (LL.B. 1928), NAACP lawyer and civil rights advocate; first African American admitted to the Delaware bar
  • Randall Robinson, anti-apartheid and pro-Haitian immigrant activist; founded the TransAfrica Forum
  • Harvey A. Silverglate, founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
  • Silda Wall Spitzer, founder of Children for Children, former First Lady of New York State
  • Moorfield Storey, president of the NAACP and the Anti-Imperialist League
  • Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union
  • William English Walling, co-founder of the NAACP and founder of the Women's Trade Union League
  • Evan Wolfson, civil rights attorney
  • Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, human rights advocate and historian

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