Dorothy Day
Founder of the Catholic Worker, activist and social reformer
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Louie Bennett
Irish suffragist, trade unionist, and peace activist
Te Rangitopeora
Ngāti Toa leader, peacemaker, composer of waiata
Inez Milholland
American suffrage leader and lawyer.
Anna Fellowes Vroland
Passionate about women’s rights and the cause of peace, Vroland was also a humanitarian with strong views on the treatment of Australia’s Aboriginal population; she became one of Victoria’s leading campaigners for Aboriginal rights.
Lina Morgenstern
German social reformer. At eighteen she had organized a league to aid poor school children, and after her marriage to Dr. Morgenstern she founded the Berlin Kindergarten Association, of which she was president from 1860 – 1866.
Chrystal Macmillan
Chrystal Macmillan was the first female science graduate at Edinburgh University and the first female honours graduate in Mathematics. She became active in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and went on to become a lawyer.
Belva Ann Lockwood
Belva Ann Lockwood (1830-1917) was an American lawyer and reformer.
Millicent Amiel Baxter
The Baxters’ pacifist activity then focused on meetings of the New Zealand No More War Movement, later the New Zealand Peace Pledge Union, and they were central figures in these meetings before and during the Second World War.
Corita Kent
During her lifetime, and especially in the twenty years following her death, Kent’s work never quite worked its way into the mainstream. Being a female artist and a nun, she did not fit into the detached, jaded aesthetic narrative of Pop.