Activism Archives - Page 89 of 161

Nora Sipos

Czech who risked her life to help Jews during WWII and helped refugees afterward

Dagmar Wilson

American anti-nuclear testing activist, artist, and illustrator of children’s books

Rosy Gibb

Irish social worker, clown, and magician

One of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike, she was one of the most effective, professional organisers of the Women’s Social and Political Union working at various moments in Yorkshire (1909), Oxford (1910), Portsmouth and Southampton (1911-12).

Madge Hobbs

Irish barrister and civil rights activist

Red Zora

With its attacks, the RZ tried to encourage women and girls to form gangs to fight back against the many forms of violence and abuse that they experienced in their everyday lives.

Wangari Maathai

Kenyan environmental activist

Annie S Swan

Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.