This document profiles 13 activists who worked on important social causes such as human rights, environmentalism, workers' rights, peace, women's rights, and education. Many of these activists faced opposition and hardship for their causes, with some being imprisoned or victims of violence, but all worked to create positive change and were recognized with awards like the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts.

1. ACTIVISTS
Cause/Effect Essay

2. Norman Borlaug
• Green Revolution
• Developed type of
high-yield wheat to
combat world
starvation
• Nobel Peace Prize

3. Rachel Carson
• Environmentalism
• Conservation

4. Cesar Chavez
• Field Worker’s
Rights

5. Leymah Gbowee
• Peace Movement
and Women’s Rights
• Helped end Liberian
Civil War
• Nobel Peace Prize

6. Aung San Suu Kyi
• Human Rights in
Myanmar (aka
Burma)
• Political prisoner
• Nobel Peace Prize

7. Harvey Milk
• Gay Rights
• First openly gay
politician to be
elected to public
office

8. Gloria Steinem
• Women’s Rights
• Leader of Feminist
movement

9. Elie Wiesel
• Human Rights
• Holocaust Survivor
• Nobel Peace Prize

10. Liu Xiaobo
• Human Rights in
China
• Held as a dissident
by the Chinese
government

11. MalalaYousafzai
• Advocate for girls’
education
• Shot by Taliban
• Nobel Peace Prize

12. Muhammad
Yunus
• Poverty/Social
Entrepreneurism
• “Banker for the
poor”
• Grameen Bank