Activism Archives - Page 162 of 196

Mary Putnam Jacobi

American physician Mary Putnam Jacobi was the first woman to graduate from the New York College of Pharmacy, and the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris.

Anna Swanwick

English writer, translator, and philanthropist.

Catherine Booth

English preacher, known as the Mother of the Salvation Army.

Sara Jane Lippincott

Journalist and serial writer known as Grace Greenwood

Yekaterina Breshkovskaya

The “Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”

Mary Louise Booth

American journalist and translator of important French works.

Mary Hunt

American temperance reformer and educator

Tuaiwa Rickard, known in her public life as Eva Rickard, was an influential figure in the Māori land rights movement from the 1970s to the 1990s. She showed courage and determination in negotiating the return of Te Kōpua to her people, and fought for increased Māori representation in Parliament and a variety of other indigenous rights causes both in New Zealand and overseas. She also acted in films and ran several businesses and community groups.

Wharetutu Te Aroha Stirling

Wharetutu Stirling became involved in conservation issues, particularly through the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, and campaigned successfully for the protection of historic areas and the restitution of traditional place names in Marlborough and Northern Canterbury. In the 1980s she served on the North Canterbury National Parks and Reserves Board. She also became deeply involved in the restoration of traditional arts within Ngāi Tahu, a task in which she and her husband became closely associated with the noted Māori artist Cliff Whiting and weaver Te Aue Davis.