| BESANT | Annie, educationist and women's rights activist born in 1847 (6) |
| SOJOURNER | ___ Truth, a women's rights activist born into slavery in America (9) |
| BEALE | Dorothea _; English educationist and campaigner for votes for women (5) |
| MARIA | ___ Bello, US actress and women's rights activist (5) |
| SOJOURNERTRUTH | *Former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist |
| SUSANBANTHONY | US abolitionist and women's rights activist (1820-1906) (5,1,7) |
| BARDOT | Brigitte ___, late French actress and animal rights activist born in 1934 (6) |
| SEEGER | Pete, U.S. folk singer and social activist born in 1919 (6) |
| WEIWEI | Ai, Chinese artist and activist, born in 1957 (6) |
| GOLDIN | Nan ****** , US photographer and activist born in 1953 (6) |
| SWAMPY | Nickname of a British environmental activist born in 1973 (6) |
| HUNTER | Bob ___ (Journalist/activist born in St. Boniface, Manitoba who co-founded Greenpeace) |
| ANGELOU | Maya, poet and civil rights activist born in St Louis in 1928 (7) |
| EDISON | U.S. inventor born in 1847 nicknamed the Wizard of Menlo Park (6) |
| LIZCARR | Actress, comedian and disability rights activist born in 1972 (3,4) |
| CARR | Liz, comedian and disability rights activist, born in 1972 (4) |
| ROBESON | Paul, U.S. bass baritone singer, actor and civil rights activist born in 1898 (7) |
| BOOBED | Rail against educationist that's made a mistake (6) |
| NELLIE | Canadian women's rights activist Ms. Mcclung (b.1873 - d.1951) |
| BLANCA | Mexican women's-rights activist ___ Magrassi Scagno |