a well-known and highly-respected leader in the environmental justice movement, passed away on October 15, 2020 at the age of 51.

an environmental and indigenous rights activist, she co-founded of the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)

a professor, filmmaker, journalist, digital storyteller trainer, activist, and the founder of the online news publication Digital Smoke Signals (DSS).

Known as the 'Queen of Tejano Music,' Selena Quintanilla was a beloved Latin recording artist who was killed by the president of her fan club at the age of 23.

George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African-American man who was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.

John Henry "Jack" Yates was a freedman, minister, and community leader in Houston, Texas.

Yolanda Black Navarro, a native Houstonian, was born on July 15, 1947 to Herbert Adalid Black of New York and Velia Arcos Rodriguez of Houston

was an American statesman and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives 

for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.

Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the end of his third year in office.

Maria Ninfa Rodriguez Laurenzo, born with the family name Rodriguez, was a restaurateur from Houston, Texas who founded the restaurant Ninfa's.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

Dolores Janney "Jenni" Rivera Saavedra was an American singer, songwriter, actress, television producer, spokesperson, philanthropist and entrepreneur known for her work within the Regional Mexican music genre, specifically in the styles of Banda, Mariachi and Norteño.

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust

Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment on March 13, 2020

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.

Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death.

was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in September 2020

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. 

Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.

Steven Paul Jobs was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor.

Vanessa Guillén was a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier who was murdered on April 22, 2020, inside a Fort Hood, Texas, armory by another enlisted soldier.