Activism Archives - Infinite Women

Chary Gumeta

Mexican poet and art promoter.

Belkis Pulido

Mexican writer and cultural promoter

Jane Edna Hunter

Prominent African-American social worker who founded the Phillis Wheatley Assocation

Hazel Mountain Walker

The first black woman principal in the Cleveland public school system, an educator, an actress, and an advocate for racial integration.

American sociologist, author, and educator, specialized in social reform through group activity while professor at the School of Applied Sciences of Western Reserve University (later Case Western) for almost 30 years.

Josefina Vicens

Mexican novelist, poet, screenwriter and activist for labor rights and women’s rights

Carrie Williams Clifford

Orator, poet, suffragist, and an activist for women and African-Americans. She helped found the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women in 1900 and served as its first president while she lived in Cleveland.

Lethia Cousins Fleming

Lethia Cousins Fleming directed national campaign efforts among African American women for three Republican presidential candidates, and led the National Association of Republican Colored Women (1920) and women’s activities in Cleveland’s 11th Ward for almost a decade (1920s).

Adella Prentiss Hughes

Founder of three important institutions: the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the Musical Arts Assocation and the Cleveland Orchestra

Myrtle Johnson Bell

Ohio teacher, administrator and community activist, and the first African-American assistant high school principal in the Cleveland Public Schools