Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton was the first woman appointed to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and continues to fight for DC statehood in her third decade as a congresswoman.
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Frances Barkman
In 1939 she organised the foundation of a home for refugee children, seeking to make it ‘as much like a home as possible’ for the children, most of whom had left parents behind in Germany. During the war she was also an advocate and fund-raiser for the Free French movement in Australia and organised the collection and shipping of relief and educational materials when the war came to an end. Barkman was an astute user of the media to win support for her causes, fighting to create sympathy for Jewish refugees and, later, to attract publicity to the French cause
Dr LaNada War Jack
LaNada War Jack is an indigenous activist, who since childhood, has fought to preserve Native American identity and tribal rights.
Mary P Burrill
Mary P. Burrill was a celebrated playwright whose works inspired many prominent writers of the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance. She used her plays to confront many topics, including, but not limited to, lynching, the Black experience, and bodily autonomy for women.
Nkenge Touré
Nkenge Touré is an activist whose expansive collection of speeches and written works confront issues around reproductive justice, Black feminism, and women’s rights.
Etta Horn
Etta Horn was a prominent welfare rights advocate. As an activist, she worked alongside other anti-poverty organizers to improve the living conditions of low-income DC residents. Though she had many successes, Horn is widely celebrated for her work with the Citywide Welfare Alliance.
Mary Kate Ryan
Irish academic and political activist
Min Ryan
Irish teacher and political activist
Agnes McCullough
Irish teacher, activist and philanthropist
Brigid McCole
Irish hepatitis C campaigner