Activism Archives - Page 147 of 197

Evelyn Healy

Australian artist, community activist and peace activist

For many years Agnes McDonald used her medical experience to treat local Maori. Her work was of critical importance during the 1860s when epidemics of scrofula and influenza caused heavy mortality in the district. She is said to have found an effective treatment for scrofula, using iodine. In the 1870s she applied to Donald McLean and was authorised to make up a medicine chest at government expense and to replenish it on each visit to Wellington.

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

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.