Truth Teller # 27, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker

 

Truth Teller #26 Thurgood Marshall

 

 Truth-Teller #26 Thurgood Marshall successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v.The Board of Education. The court found segregated public schools unconstitutional. Marshall went on to be the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court.

 

                                                            

Writer Rebecca Solnit, Truth Teller #25

 

Vaclav Havel, Truth teller #24

Poet, playwright, prisoner, president. A brief biography of Czech hero Vàclav Havel.

 

Truth Teller #23: Heather Cox Richsrdson

Truth Teller #23 Heather Cox Richardson, an American historian and self-described Lincoln-era Republican works as a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians.

  

Truth teller #22 Eleanor Roosevelt

Truth Teller #22 Eleanor Roosevelt. The longest-serving First Lady, Roosevelt was a prolific author of six books and countless articles. At the White House for a time spanning The Great Depression and WWII, she was an advocate for racial justice, an opponent of McCarthyism and advisor to her husband Franklin, bringing new gravitas to the role of First Lady.

  

Truth Teller #21, Woody Guthrie

If Guthrie were writing "Pretty Boy Floyd" today he might have substituted "Big fat sharpie" for  "Fountain Pen".

 

Truth Teller #20 Margaret Chase Smith

Truth Teller # 20 Margaret Chase Smith. A Senator from Maine, she was the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. As a Republican Senator she was the first to challenge McCarthyism, giving a 15 minute speech to the Senate titled “ A Declaration of Conscience“ delivered as McCarthy looked on. Smith endorsed every American's right to criticize, to protest, and to hold unpopular beliefs.

Truth Teller #19 Lord Bertrand Russell

 Mathematician and Philosopher Bertrand Russell was jailed for his opposition to the First World War. Although willing to be jailed for what he believed, he was not dogmatic. He famously remarked “I would never die for my beliefs, I might be wrong.”

Truth Teller #18, Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen delivered these These remarks  in Manchester, England at the beginning of his 2025 European Tour