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Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell the Truth
September 2-December 19, 2008
Portraits
Portraits in the exhibition at USM's Lewiston-Auburn College:
- Susan B. Anthony, reformer, women's suffrage leader, 1820-1906
- James Baldwin, fiction writer, essayist, social critic, 1924-1987
- James Bell, attorney, youth justice activist, 1954-
- Wendell Berry, farmer, essayist, conservationist, novelist, teacher, poet, 1934-
- Rachel Carson, biologist, writer, ecologist, 1907-1964
- William Sloane Coffiin, Clergyman, Social Activist 1924-2006
- Frederick Douglass, anti-slavery orator, writer, 1818-1895
- W.E.B. Dubois, writer, teacher, civil rights spokesman, 1868-1963
- Marian Wright Edelman, children's advocate, 1939-
- Ralph Ellison, novelist and essayist, 1914-1994
- Dwight Eisenhower, military leader, President of the United States, 1890-1969
- Paul Farmer, physician, medical anthropologist, 1959-
- Bruce Gagnon, veteran, activist, organizer, 1952-
- Emma Goldman, anarchist, feminist, labor advocate, 1869-1940
- Doris Haddock “Granny D.,” activist, 1910-
- Jim Hightower, politician, populist author, speaker, 1943-
- Molly Ivins, political columnist, 1944-2007
- Helen Keller, writer, lecturer, advocate for the disabled, 1880-1968
- Jonathan Kozol, educator, writer, activist, 1936-
- Martin Luther King Jr., clergyman, civil rights leader, 1929-1968
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865
- Natasha Mayers, artist, educator, activist, 1946-
- Bill Moyers, broadcast journalist, Baptist minister, 1934-
- John Muir, conservationist, naturalist, explorer, 1838-1914
- Rosa Parks, seamstress, civil rights leader, 1913-2005
- Sister Lucy Poulin, former Carmelite nun, community activist, 1939-Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian, social reformer, 1884-1962
- Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator for Maine, 1897-1995
- Samantha Smith, grade school student, peace activist, 1972-1985
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, reformer, writer, lecturer, 1815-1902
- Henry David Thoreau, naturalist, writer, social critic, 1817-1862
- Helen Thomas, reporter, 1920-
- Mark Twain, writer, humorist, social critic, 1835-1910
- Alice Waters, chef, author, community activist, 1944-
- Terry Tempest Williams, naturalist, writer, environmental activist, 1955-
- Chief Joseph Hinmaton Yalektit, Native American leader, c 1840-1904
(Images and biographical information available at www.americanswhotellthetruth.org)
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