Activism Archives - Page 72 of 193

Maria Louise Baldwin

Educator and activist Maria Louise Baldwin belonged to a generation of Bostonian Black women highly connected to circles of educated Black and White activists.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the most outspoken and articulate abolitionists of the 19th century.

Elizabeth Lee Hazen

Nystatin, one of the first effective antifungal medicines, was discovered in 1950 by two women scientists: Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975) and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980)

Dr Alice Hamilton

Alice Hamilton promoted “industrial medicine” and laws to protect employees from dangerous substances in the workplace.

Mary Lasker

Medical philanthropist, political strategist, and health activist Mary Lasker acted as the catalyst for the rapid growth of the biomedical research enterprise in the United States after World War II.

Maria Wodzicka

Polish-New Zealand welfare worker and community leader

As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.