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Malcolm X
Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, born Malcolm Little, 1925–1965) was an American Muslim minister and Black nationalist leader, Nation of Islam spokesman, hajj pilgrim, Sunni convert, OAAU founder, assassinated at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom.
Mandy Rice-Davies
Mandy Rice-Davies (Marilyn Rice-Davies, 1944–2014), Welsh showgirl of the 1963 Profumo affair, famous for the retort "Well, he would, wouldn't he?" at Stephen Ward's trial, later nightclub owner in Israel and novelist.
Manoj Jarange
Manoj Jarange Patil (मनोज जरांगे पाटील), Maratha reservation activist from Antarwali Sarati, Jalna, Maharashtra; leads Kunbi-certificate/OBC quota agitation through repeated hunger strikes since 2023, distinct from other Maratha quota leaders.
Māori Land March
The Māori Land March was a 1975 protest march led by Whina Cooper, who walked 1,000 km from Te Hāpua to Parliament in Wellington to protest Māori land loss.
March of the Hundred Thousand
The March of the Hundred Thousand (Passeata dos Cem Mil) was a protest by about 100,000 people in Rio de Janeiro on 26 June 1968 against Brazil's military dictatorship.
Margaret Brown
Margaret Tobin Brown (1867–1932), Denver philanthropist and reformer mythologized as "Molly Brown" after the Titanic; juvenile justice, Ludlow relief, suffrage, Devastated France; not actually named Molly.
Margaret Brownson Usen
Margaret Brownson Usen, also known as Margaret Brownson Obi, is a Nigerian philanthropist who was First Lady of Anambra State as the wife of Governor Peter Obi.
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American civil rights lawyer and children's rights activist, first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, and founder and 45-year president of the Children's Defense Fund.
Mario Savio
Mario Savio (1942–1996), American Free Speech Movement leader at UC Berkeley; philosophy student and Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteer famous for the 1964 police-car speech and "bodies upon the gears" address.
Mark Anthony Stroman
Mark Anthony Stroman (1969-2011) was an Aryan Brotherhood of Texas member who killed two men and blinded a third in Dallas-area post-9/11 revenge shootings; executed July 20, 2011, after victim Rais Bhuiyan's forgiveness campaign failed.
Mark Dice
Mark Dice (Mark Shouldice, born 1977, Milwaukee) is an American conservative YouTuber, media analyst, and author of Illuminati and fake-news books; his channel began January 24, 2007, reaching about 1.9 million subscribers and 712 million views.
Marriage of Charlie Johns and Eunice Winstead
1937 Tennessee child marriage: tobacco farmer Charlie Johns (22 or 25) wed 9-year-old Eunice Winstead near Treadway, performed by preacher Walter Lamb for $1; national outrage led Tennessee to set a minimum marriage age.
Marry-your-rapist law
Marry-your-rapist laws, also called rape-marriage or marry-the-rapist laws, let a rapist escape prosecution or punishment by marrying his victim. Rooted in the French 1810 Napoleonic Code and Ottoman 1911 Code, they persisted in an estimated 18 countries; Tunisia, Jordan, and Lebanon repealed theirs in 2017 and Bahrain in 2023.
Martin Luther King III
Martin Luther King III, born 1957, eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist; Fulton County commissioner 1986, fourth SCLC president 1997-2003, founder of Realizing the Dream, voting rights march organizer.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), American Baptist minister and civil rights leader, led the Montgomery bus boycott, Birmingham Campaign, 1963 March on Washington, and Selma marches; won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in Memphis.
Mary Attenborough
Mary Attenborough, born Mary Clegg (1896-1961), Leicester philanthropist, magistrate, and wife of college principal Frederick Attenborough; helped Basque child refugees and adopted Kindertransport sisters Helga and Irene Bejach; mother of Richard, David, John Attenborough.
Mary Jo Buttafuoco
Mary Jo Buttafuoco (Mary Jo Connery, born 1955) is the Long Island woman shot in the head in 1992 by Amy Fisher, her husband Joey's teenage mistress; survivor, memoirist, and subject of the 2026 Lifetime film I Am Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
Mary Jo Kopechne
Mary Jo Kopechne (1940-1969) was an American political worker, RFK staffer and Boiler Room Girl, who died July 18, 1969, when Ted Kennedy's car went off Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island; Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene.
Mary Whitehouse
Mary Whitehouse (1910–2001), British schoolteacher, founded the 1964 Clean Up TV campaign and the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association; her morality campaigns shaped UK censorship law and drew lasting satire and reappraisal.
Mary Williams (activist)
Mary Luana Williams (born 1967), American social activist and author, daughter of Black Panther parents, raised by Jane Fonda; founded the Lost Boys Foundation and wrote The Lost Daughter: A Memoir.
Mass Democratic Movement
The Mass Democratic Movement was an informal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa in the late 1980s, formed after the United Democratic Front was banned in 1988.
Mass racial violence in the United States
Mass racial violence in the United States, also known as race riots in the United States, covers white mob attacks on Black Americans from Reconstruction through the twentieth century.
Mass sexual assault
Mass sexual assault: sexual violence by multiple perpetrators or against multiple victims, notably mass rape as a tactic of war (Bosnia, Tigray, Sudan) and sexual violence at mass gatherings; recognized under IHL and UNSC Resolutions 1820 and 2467.
Mass sexual assault in Egypt
Mob sexual assaults of women around Cairo's Tahrir Square during protests and celebrations from 2011 to 2014, with pre-2011 precedents; documented by Amnesty and HRW, totaling over 500 survivors, prompting OpAntiSH and a 2014 harassment law.
Mass suicide
Mass suicide, also called collective suicide, is the simultaneous self-inflicted death of a social group's members, most famously the 1978 Jonestown deaths of more than 900 people.
Massage parlor
Massage parlor: commercial massage establishment, first attested 1894 as a euphemism for a brothel; in the U.S. now tied to illicit massage businesses, trafficking, and licensing regulation, while the legitimate profession uses massage therapy.
Matt Schlapp
Matt Schlapp (Matthew Schlapp), American political operative and lobbyist, chairman of the American Conservative Union since 2014, runs CPAC; former George W. Bush White House political director, Koch lobbyist, Trump ally, and 2023 sexual assault lawsuit defendant.
Matthew F. Hale
Matthew F. Hale (born 1971), American white supremacist, Pontifex Maximus of the World Church of the Creator from 1996; convicted in 2004 of soliciting Judge Joan Lefkow's murder, serving 40 years.
Maulana Karenga
Maulana Karenga (Ronald McKinley Everett, born 1941) is an Africana studies scholar at Cal State Long Beach, founder of the Us Organization and Kawaida philosophy, and creator of Kwanzaa in 1966.
Maxim Martsinkevich (Максим Сергеевич Марцинкевич)
Maxim Martsinkevich, also known as Tesak, was a Russian neo-Nazi activist and video blogger who founded Format-18 and Restrukt before his death in 2020, which was officially ruled suicide.