Activism Archives - Page 29 of 158

Evelyn G Lowery

Evelyn Gibson Lowery has been both foot soldier and leader at pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement.

Diane Nash

American civil rights activist

Addie L Wyatt

One of the US’s foremost labor union leaders, women’s rights advocate and civil rights activist.

Bishop Barbara Lewis King, affectionately called Dr. Barbara, is the Founder/Minister of the Hillside Chapel and Truth Center, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2001, she became the first female to be enstooled as a Chief at Assin Nsuta, Ghana, West Africa.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian

Áine Hardiman

Dominican nun, community activist and anti-apartheid campaigner

Dr Deborah Prothrow-Stith

Massachusetts’ first woman Commissioner of Public Health, as well as its youngest, where she established the US’s first Violence Prevention Office at a state health department.

Luz Maria Cardoza-Fonseca

Nicaraguan immigrant who fought for – and won – asylum rights

Verneda Rodríguez Mclean

WWII military pilot active in the fight for veteran status for the WASPs and the first WASP to be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.