Peter Benenson (1921) Peter Benenson was an English lawyer who organized a letter-writing campaign in 1961 calling for amnesty for “prisoners of conscience.” His campaign resulted in the establishment of Amnesty International, a human-rights organization that works to combat violations […]

Emily Brontë (1818) Sister of writers Charlotte and Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë was an English author who is most famous for her novel Wuthering Heights, a highly imaginative story of passion and hatred set on the Yorkshire moors. Emily’s unusual […]

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805) Tocqueville, French political thinker and historian, is best known for his works, Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution, in which he discusses rising living standards and the social conditions of individuals in western society. The […]