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Mother Angelica
Mother Angelica (Rita Antoinette Rizzo, 1923–2016), Poor Clare nun, founded EWTN in 1981 from an Alabama monastery garage with $200; built a viewer-funded global Catholic network, the Hanceville shrine, and wrote 56 books.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), founded in 1980 by Candace Lightner after her daughter Cari's death, is the largest US nonprofit against drunk driving, credited with the 21 drinking age, .08 BAC laws, ignition interlocks, and victim services.
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Madres de Plaza de Mayo) is an Argentine human rights organization of mothers of people disappeared during the 1976–1983 military dictatorship.
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) is a Nigerian rights organization founded in 1990, led by Ken Saro-Wiwa until his 1995 execution.
Murder of Ahmaud Arbery
Murder of Ahmaud Arbery: 2020 fatal shooting of a 25-year-old Black jogger in Brunswick, Georgia by Travis and Gregory McMichael and Roddie Bryan; state murder convictions, federal hate-crime convictions, Georgia law changes.
Murder of James Byrd Jr.
Murder of James Byrd Jr., also called the Jasper dragging death: a 1998 racist hate crime in Jasper, Texas, in which three white supremacists dragged a 49-year-old Black man to death behind a pickup, leading to Texas and federal hate crime laws and two executions.
Murder of Sophie Lancaster
Murder of Sophie Lancaster: 2007 killing of a 20-year-old goth in Bacup, Lancashire, with boyfriend Robert Maltby; sentencing judge called it a hate crime; led to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and campaigns to extend UK hate crime law.
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
The June 21, 1964 Klan murders of civil rights volunteers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner near Philadelphia, Mississippi, also called the Mississippi Burning or Freedom Summer murders; eight federal convictions in 1967, Killen's 2005 manslaughter conviction.
Muscular Christianity
Muscular Christianity: Victorian religious movement, also called Christian manliness, linking sport and faith; began as an 1857 joke about a Kingsley novel, spread via the YMCA (London 1844) and shaped American sports, basketball, and the Olympics.
My Way killings
The My Way killings are fatal karaoke disputes in the Philippines over Frank Sinatra's song 'My Way', also called videoke killings; at least a dozen deaths between 1998 and 2018 led bars to remove the song.
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Evers-Williams, born Myrlie Louise Beasley in 1933, is an American civil rights activist and journalist, widow of Medgar Evers and NAACP chair from 1995 to 1998.
NAACP
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), oldest U.S. civil rights organization, founded February 12, 1909 in New York City after the 1908 Springfield riot; won Brown v. Board of Education; led by Derrick Johnson.
Najeeb Muhammad (നജീബ് മുഹമ്മദ്)
Najeeb Muhammad (നജീബ് മുഹമ്മദ്), Kerala labourer from Arattupuzha, real-life subject of Benyamin's novel Aadujeevitham (Goat Days) and the 2024 film; kidnapped in Saudi Arabia 1992, held as an unpaid goatherd, escaped 1995 and deported.
Nancy Dell'Olio
Nancy Dell'Olio (Annunziata Dell'Olio), Italian-American lawyer and TV personality, born in New York, raised in Bisceglie; partner of England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson from 2000, later Strictly Come Dancing contestant.
Nancy Spungen
Nancy Spungen (1958-1978), Philadelphia-born punk scene figure and girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, was stabbed to death in room 100 of New York's Chelsea Hotel on 12 October 1978; Vicious was charged but the case remains unsolved.
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born 1970, Montreal) is a Canadian author and UBC Professor of Climate Justice known for No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, Doppelganger, and the Leap Manifesto.
Narendra Dabholkar
Narendra Dabholkar (1945-2013), Indian medical doctor, rationalist, and founder-president of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS/ANiS), who drafted the Maharashtra anti-superstition bill and was shot dead in Pune on 20 August 2013, days before the ordinance passed.
National Debt Repayment Movement
The National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동) was a 1907 Korean campaign to repay the empire's debt to Japan, begun in Daegu and joined by about 25 percent of the population.
Natural hair movement
The natural hair movement is a cultural movement, mainly among Black women, embracing natural afro-textured hair, with waves in the 1960s to 1970s and from the late 2000s.
Neha Bora
Neha Bora is an Indian student activist who leads the All India Students' Association and led a 2026 hunger strike.
Neil Horan
Neil Horan, also known as Cornelius Horan, is an Irish former priest known for disrupting the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Olympic marathon.
Neo-Confederates
Neo-Confederates are US adherents of Confederate ideology, also called neo-Confederacy, centered on the League of the South and Identity Dixie, Lost Cause myths, Confederate symbols, and white supremacist beliefs, classified by the SPLC as hate groups.
Nevada-Semipalatinsk
Nevada-Semipalatinsk was an anti-nuclear movement founded in Kazakhstan in February 1989 by the Kazakh poet Olzhas Suleimenov, whose campaign closed the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in 1991.
New antisemitism
New antisemitism: concept for post-1945 anti-Jewish hostility expressed through demonization of Israel as a Jewish collectivity; also called Israel-related antisemitism; central to IHRA, JDA, and Nexus definition debates.
New Black Panther Party
The New Black Panther Party is an American Black militant organization founded in Dallas in the early 1990s and designated a hate group by the SPLC.
New Unionism
New Unionism (novo sindicalismo) was a Brazilian labor movement of the late 1970s, centered on metalworkers' strikes in the ABC Paulista region against the military regime's wage policy.
Nonresistance
Nonresistance is a pacifist stance refusing all force to resist evil, rooted in Christian teaching and the peace churches. Distinct from nonviolent resistance and pacifism broadly, it is now studied alongside civil resistance success-rate debates.
Nonviolence
Nonviolence, or civil resistance, is waging social and political conflict without physical violence, via protest, noncooperation, and intervention; Gene Sharp catalogued 198 methods, and Chenoweth and Stephan found nonviolent campaigns about twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.
Nonviolent resistance
Nonviolent resistance: struggle against oppression without physical violence, using strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and satyagraha as developed by Gandhi; Chenoweth and Stephan's NAVCO data show nonviolent campaigns succeed about twice as often as violent ones.
Normalization of antisemitism
Normalization of antisemitism: the process by which hostility toward Jews becomes accepted in mainstream discourse, distinct from 'normalization of the Jews' (Jewish emancipation). Documented via ADL, EU, and US National Strategy data on online hate, campuses, and political rhetoric.