Phillip Jackson was born on September 22, 1950, and died on November 4, 2018. He was an American politician. Phillip Jackson has been engaged with endeavors to enhance the Chicago zone’s human administrations since 1994. He worked in human administrations at the Chicago Office of Management and Budget (1994) preceding joining Chicago Public Schools as ..
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Mariama Keïta was born in 1946, in Niamey and died on October 29, 2018, Turkey. She was Niger’s first woman journalist and feminist activist. She started as a supervisor and moderator of a daily paper and on general society radio station La Voix du Sahel. Keïta took an interest in the advancement of the Constitution ..
Dame Beryl Edith Beaurepaire was born Beryl Edith Bedggood on September 24, 1923, in Camberwell, Victoria and died on October 24, 2018. She was an Australian political activist, feminist and philanthropist. She grew up in a middle-class family who ran a shoe manufacturing company. Dame Beryl Beaurepaire was educated at Fintona Girls’ School. Beaurepaire served ..
Ana González González, more commonly known by her married name Ana González de Recabarren was born on July 25, 1925 and died on October 25, 2018. He was a Chilean human rights activist. Ana González was married to Manuel Segundo Recabarren Rojas and they had two youngsters, Luis Emilio (not to be mistaken for Luis ..
Rudolf Gelbard was born on December 4, 1930 and died on October 24, 2018. He was an Austrian Holocaust survivor and political campaigner against anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism. He addressed in schools and colleges about his encounters amid the Holocaust, and furthermore showed up in a 2007 narrative film about his experiences. Rudolf Gelbard was conceived ..
Sir Ralph Herberley “Ngātata” Love was born on September 7, 1937, and died on October 17, 2018. He was a New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi negotiator, academic and Māori leader. Love was a Professor Emeritus of Business Development at Victoria University of Wellington’s Victoria Management School. He was the son of the Te Ati Awa ..
Sarah Nyendwoha Ntiro was born on January 1, 1925, in Hoima and died on October 22, 2018. She was an Ugandan educator and activist. She was the first woman university graduate in East and Central Africa from Oxford University with a Bachelor of Arts (Hon) in History in 1954. Her parents were Erasto B. Nyendwoha ..
David Stroh Buckel was born in 1957 and died on April 14, 2018. He was an American LGBT rights lawyer. He was an environmental activist. He graduated in 1987 from Cornell Law School. He was partnered with Terry Kaelber, with whom he was raising a daughter, Hannah Broholm-Vail. Buckel and Kaelber co-parented Hannah with Rona ..
Emily Daoud Nasrallah (née Abi Rached) was born on July 6, 1931, and died on March 14, 2018. She was a Lebanese writer and women’s rights activist. Emily Nasrallah graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1958 with a BA in education and literature but soon achieved acclaim for her writing with the publication ..
Joaquin Avila was born and raised in Compton, California and died on March 9, 2018. He was a Mexican American voting rights attorney and activist. Avila spent more than two decades using the federal Voting Rights Act to increase election fairness for minority voters. But as several court precedents weakened the federal Voting Rights ..