Activism Archives - Page 120 of 161

Helen Blackburn

Irish suffragist and writer

Helen Chenevix

Irish trade unionist, suffragist, and social campaigner

Jean Cochrane

Irish educator and activist for women’s education

Edith Kanaka’ole (also affectionately called “Aunty Edith”), a native Hawaiian composer, chanter and dancer, was a champion for the preservation of native Hawaiian culture and arts. Kanaka’ole lead the highly celebrated dance school, Hālau o Kekuhi, where her legacy as a Kumu Hula, or chief practitioner of traditional Hawaiian dance and culture, took flight. 

Susan M Osborne

American philanthropist. At the age of nineteen, she founded the Home for Friendless Women and Girls in New York City, and later established a refuge shelter there.

Lydia Maria Child

American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.

Ethel Bentham

Irish doctor and Member of Parliament

Alice Eleanor Cossey

As ATU secretary, Cossey was a leading advocate of higher wages for women. When she retired in 1945 she left behind a strong union which was the oldest surviving women’s union in New Zealand.