• Herbert Aptheker, 86, radical historian, San Jose, CA
• Stetson Kennedy, 85, journalist and Klan infiltrator, Jacksonville, FL
• Art Branscombe, 81, fought for a racially integrated neighborhood, Denver, CO
• Horace Seldon, 77, coalition builder, Boston, MA
• Pat Cusick, 70, community organizer, Boston, MA
• Nat Yalowitz, 70, social worker and organizer, New York City, NY

3) Grassroots Organizing

• Jesse Wimberley, 43, organizes working class white men, West End, NC
• Jim Hansen, 42, Executive Director of United Vision for Idaho, Boise, ID
• Chip Berlet, 52, researches right wing groups, Cambridge, MA
• Joe Fahey, 44, union official and labor organizer, Watsonville, CA
• Mike McMahon, 60, community organizer with Central American immigrants, Houston, TX

4) Art and Politics

• David Attyah, 34, graphic artist and founder of THINK AGAIN, San Francisco, CA
• Si Kahn, 57, singer/songwriter and Executive Director of Grassroots Leadership, Charlotte, NC
• Steve Bailey, 43, Executive Director of Jump-Start Theatre, San Antonio, TX
• Tim Wise, 33, writer, lecturer, social critic, and activist, Nashville, TN
• Billy Yalowitz, 42, Community-based Performance Director and Choreographer, Philadelphia, PA

5) Challenging the System from Within

• John Allocca, 39, bilingual Spanish teacher, Boston, MA
• Bill Johnston, 60, former Boston, MA, police officer, Emerald Island, NC
• A.T. Miller, 43, teacher and director of multiculturalism at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Ken Kimerling, 56, lawyer for Puerto Rican and Asian American civil rights, New York City, NY
• Monte Piliawsky, 57, teacher and historian, Detroit, MI
• Lonnie Lusardo, 54, consultant and community organizer, Seattle, WA
• Lee Formwalt, 51, historian and Dean at an historically Black college, Albany, GA
• Nibs Stroupe, 55, minister of a multiracial congregation, Decatur, GA

6) Challenging the System from the Margins

• John Cole Vodicka, 53, founder of the Prison and Jail Project, Americus, Georgia
• Richard Lapchick, 56, advocates racial and gender justice in sports and in society, Orlando, FL
• Chris Shuey, 46, environmental health specialist, Albuquerque, NM
• Terry Kupers, 58, psychiatrist, prison activist, and author, Oakland, CA
• Rick Whaley, 51, Native American treaty rights advocate, Milwaukee, WI
• Jim Murphy, 54, firefighter and advocate for children's rights in Southeast Asia, Boston, MA

7) The Next Generation

• Sean Cahill, 38, researcher with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, New York City, NY
• Tobin Miller Shearer, 36, director of a Mennonite anti-racism initiative, Akron, PA
• Jason Wallach, 32, grassroots coordinator for the Mexico Solidarity Network, Chicago, IL
• Bill Vandenberg, 31, co-Executive Director of the Colorado Progressive Coalition, Denver, CO
• Matt Reese, 26, community activist, Louisville, KY

Appendix

Endnotes

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Authors' Biographies