20th-Century Timeline
The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century
Tom Johnson (1854-1911)
Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855-1925)
Eugene Debs (1855-1926)
Louis Brandeis (1856-1941)
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Florence Kelley (1859-1932)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Victor Berger (1860-1929)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936)
Hiram Johnson (1866-1945)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
William "Big Bill" Haywood (1869-1928)
Alice Hamilton (1869-1970)
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
Lewis Hine (1874-1940)
Robert F. Wagner Sr. (1877-1953)
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
John L. Lewis (1880-1969)
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Frances Perkins (1880-1965)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972)
Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)
Roger Baldwin (1884-1981)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Norman Thomas (1884-1968)
A. J. Muste (1885-1967)
Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977)
Sidney Hillman (1887-1946)
Henry Wallace (1888-1965)
A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
Earl Warren (1891-1974)
Floyd Olson (1891-1936)
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Paul Robeson (1898-1976)
William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
Harry Bridges (1901-1990)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954)
Virginia F. Durr (1903-1999)
Ella Baker (1903-1986)
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904-1991)
Myles Horton (1905-1990)
Carey McWilliams (1905-1980)
William J. Brennan Jr. (1906-1997)


Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Walter Reuther (1907-1970)
I. F. Stone (1907-1989)
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)
Saul Alinsky (1909-1972)
Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)
Harry Hay (1912-2002)
Studs Terkel (1912-2008)
David Brower (1912-2000)
Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962)
Barry Commoner (1917-)
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)
Pete Seeger (1919-)
Jerry Wurf (1919-1981)
Bella Abzug (1920-1998)
Betty Friedan (1921-2006)
Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
Rev. William Sloane Coffin (1924-2006)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Cesar Chavez (1927-1993)
Michael Harrington (1928-1989)
Rev. James Lawson (1928-)
Noam Chomsky (1928-)
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Allard Lowenstein (1929-1980)
Harvey Milk (1930-1978)
Ted Kennedy (1932-2009)
Ralph Nader (1934-)
Gloria Steinem (1934-)
Bill Moyers (1934-)
Bob Moses (1935-)
Tom Hayden (1939-)
John Lewis (1940-)
Joan Baez (1941-)
Bob Dylan (1941-)
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-)
Jesse Jackson (1941-)
Muhammad Ali (1942-)
Billie Jean King (1943-)
Paul Wellstone (1944-2002)
Bruce Springsteen (1949-)
Michael Moore (1954-)
Tony Kushner (1956-)
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