Dr LaNada War Jack
LaNada War Jack is an indigenous activist, who since childhood, has fought to preserve Native American identity and tribal rights.
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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
Dr Patricia Sheehan
Irish medical doctor, speech therapist, and campaigner against nuclear power
Dagmar Šimková
Following the communist coup of February 1948 in Czechoslovakia, as many as 100,000 people were prosecuted for ‘political crimes’, most of whom were sentenced to lengthy periods in penal institutions and forced labour camps, including Dagmar Šimková, who later produced a detailed autobiographical account of her experiences in prison, Byly jsme tam taky [“We were there too”].