#reformist__reformer__crusader__meliorist a disputant who advocates reform
supertype: #disputant a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
instance: #Anthony_Comstock #John_Huss #Robert_Owen #Girolamo_Savonarola #Francis_Everett_Townsend #John_Wilkes
subtype: #abolitionist__emancipationist a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
instance: #Henry_Ward_Beecher__Beecher #John_Brown__Brown #Frederick_Douglass__Douglass #William_Lloyd_Garrison__Garrison #Harriet_Elizabeth_Beecher_Stowe__Stowe__Harriet_Beecher_Stowe #Arthur_Tappan__Tappan #Sojourner_Truth__Truth #Harriet_Tubman__Tubman #Theodore_Dwight_Weld__Weld
subtype: #birth-control_campaigner__birthcontrolcampaigner__birth-control_reformer__birthcontrolreformer a social reformer who advocates birth control and family planning
instance: #Marie_Charlotte_Carmichael_Stopes__Stopes__Marie_Stopes
subtype: #Chartist a 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people
subtype: #civil_rights_leader__civil_rights_worker a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
instance: #Julian_Bond__Bond #William_Edward_Burghardt_Du_Bois__Du_Bois__W._E._B._Du_Bois #Medgar_Wiley_Evers__Evers__Medgar_Evers #James_Leonard_Farmer__Farmer #Jesse_Louis_Jackson__Jackson__Jesse_Jackson #Martin_Luther_King_Jr.__King__Martin_Luther_King #Malcolm_X__Malcolm_Little #James_Howard_Meredith__Meredith__James_Meredith #Rosa_Parks__Parks #Paul_Bustill_Robeson__Robeson__robeson__paulrobeson #Roy_Wilkins__Wilkins #Whitney_Moore_Young_Jr.__Young__Whitney_Young
subtype: #protester__demonstrator someone who participates in a public display of group feeling
subtype: #picket.protester a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
subtype: #dry__prohibitionist a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
instance: #Carry_Amelia_Moore_Nation__Nation__Carry_Nation #Frances_Elizabeth_Caroline_Willard__Willard
subtype: #environmentalist__conservationist someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution
subtype: #Green an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
instance: #Rachel_Louise_Carson__Carson__Rachel_Carson #Barbara_Ward__Ward__Baroness_Jackson_of_Lodsworth
subtype: #feminist__women's_rightist__women'srightist__women's_liberationist__women'sliberationist__libber a supporter of feminism
subtype: #suffragette a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)
instance: #Simone_de_Beauvoir__Beauvoir #Betty_Naomi_Friedan__Friedan__Betty_Friedan #Charlotte_Anna_Perkins_Gilman__Gilman #Lucretia_Coffin_Mott__Mott #Alice_Paul__Paul #Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton__Stanton #Gloria_Steinem__Steinem #Lucy_Stone__Stone #Sojourner_Truth__Truth #Mary_Wollstonecraft_Godwin__Wollstonecraft__Mary_Wollstonecraft #Frances_Wright__Wright__Fanny_Wright
subtype: #hippie__hippy__hipster__flowerchild someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
subtype: #insurgent__insurrectionist__freedom_fighter__freedomfighter__rebel a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
subtype: #mutineer open rebellion and refusal to obey authorities (especially by seamen or soldiers)
instance: #Nat_Turner__Turner #Denmark_Vesey__Vesey #Sir_William_Wallace__Wallace
subtype: #militant__activist a militant reformer
subtype: #Black_Muslim activist member of a largely Black American group called The Nation of Islam
instance: #Elijah_Muhammad__Muhammad
subtype: #Black_Panther a member of the Black Panthers political party
instance: #Malcolm_X__Malcolm_Little
subtype: #non-resistant__nonresistant__passive_resister__passiveresister a reformer who believes in passive resistance
subtype: #Utopian an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man"
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