Award-winning poet, dancer, activist and educator Janice Mirikitani (1942–2021) was internationally known and respected for her life-long commitment to addressing the horrors of war and for advocating against institutional racism and the enslavement of women and the poor.
Reema Zaman is the author of the memoir, I am Yours, where she shares a story of hope as she guides the reader through her life.
When she was found guilty of murdering her attacker and known predator in 1972, she was convicted by an all-white jury and became a symbol of women’s self-defense
New Zealand librarian, Methodist deaconess, nurse and child welfare officer
Irish dressmaker
Irish murder victim
Abigail (Abbie) Gardner was thirteen years old when the Wahpekute leader Inkpaduta led his band in a raid against her community in Spirit Lake, Iowa. Her captors took her across the tallgrass prairie and through the Pipestone Quarry before releasing her for a ransom in the Dakota Territory.
Defendant in the Madrigal v. Quilligan civil rights class action lawsuit against the forced sterilization of Latina women
Defendant in the Madrigal v. Quilligan civil rights class action lawsuit against the forced sterilization of Latina women
Defendant in the Madrigal v. Quilligan civil rights class action lawsuit against the forced sterilization of Latina women