Here are some great Americans we felt worthy of honor in our Prospect Patriots series.
America 250
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Judy Heumann: Tenacious Symbol
The disability rights activist carried forward the demands of those who didn’t get to live to see the movement’s triumphs.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Dorothy Day: Saint Radical
The incredible life and times of the Catholic who served the poor and gave hell to everyone else
Posted inCivil Rights in America
A. Philip Randolph: Socialist on the March
A. Philip Randolph led Black workers and won defining civil rights victories over a career spanning 60 turbulent years.
Posted inWorking in America
Frances Perkins: The Architect of Social Security
In her words, Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet secretary, ‘came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common workingmen.’
Posted inPolitics
Ferdinand Pecora: The Greatest Senate Investigator Ever
How Sicilian immigrant Ferdinand Pecora upended the rule of the bankers and ushered in FDR’s radical reforms of capitalism
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Ida Tarbell: The Journalist Who Took Down Rockefeller
Not even Teddy Roosevelt could break up his corrupt oil monopoly—until a daughter of the Pennsylvania oil fields came along.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Louis Brandeis: The Empiricist
Louis Brandeis believed that facts could change lives and break excessive power where it accumulated.
Posted inPolitics
Ida B. Wells: Brave Woman
By chronicling the shame of lynching in the South, Ida B. Wells exposed the corruption of white supremacy.