Activism Archives - Page 112 of 161

Anne Deane

Irish businesswoman, philanthropist, and nationalist

Otelia Maria Carrington Cunningham

Otelia was an American suffrage leader during a time when the women’s suffrage movement had decided to focus on supporting the war effort.

Mary Geddes

Mary Geddes, along with other YWCA representatives, took a leading role in the revival of the National Council of Women of New Zealand in Auckland in 1917.

Charlotte Despard

Irish suffragist, nationalist, socialist, and writer

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

American poet and philanthropist

Susanne Day

Irish writer and suffragist

Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.

Anne Ward

Possibly her most notable achievement was to establish, almost single-handedly, a national organisation which would spearhead significant social and political reforms in New Zealand.

Kate Sheppard

New Zealand suffragist

Carol June Young Specht

Carol June Young Specht was a Past President of the local League of Women Voters, President of Women Against Rape (WAR), and co-founder of the Coles County Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She advocated with a passion for victims of rape and domestic violence during the mid-twentieth century.