Lens of the Living Project:

Cesar Chavez: organized farm workers to demand higher wages, health insurance, and other benefits for migrant workers in California.

Shirley Chislom: first African-American women elected to the U.S. House of Representatives; ran for the office of President of the United States in 1972.

Patty Hearst: granddaughter of newspaper mogul, William Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, and subsequently participated with the SLA in an armed robbery of a San Francisco bank.

Jesse Jackson: a leader in the civil rights movement who founded PUSH(People United to Save Humanity) in 1971.

George McGovern: the senator from South Dakota who was the Democratic Party nominee for President in 1972.

Karen Silkwood: an employee of the Kerr-Mcgee nuclear processing plant who was killed in a car crash on the way to a meeting with a New York Times reporter to reveal evidence of unsafe and illegal practices at the nuclear plant.

Benjamin Spock: a pediatrician, author, and social reformer whose permissive philosophy in his influential book, The Common Sense of Baby Care, was blamed for a wide range of social problems in the 1970's.

George Wallace: Governor of Alabama; shot and paralyzed from the waist down while campaigning for the presidency in 1972 on an anti-bussing, law and order platform.

Andrew Young: first African-American voted into the U.S. House of Representatives from the deep South since 1898.