Activism > Civil Rights Archives

Marcella Rossein

She focused her political activity on organizing and actively fighting against anti-Semitism, racial oppression, fighting for civil rights and equality for working people from a leftist prospective.

Elisabeth Freeman

British-American women’s rights, civil rights and labor rights activist

Jennifer Schreiner

South African anti-apartheid and political activist

South African activist; in September 2000 she was appointed Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. She also served on the Bureau of the World Summit for Sustainable Development as an ex-officio member.

Joyce Piliso-Seroke

South African YWCA national secretary who travelled abroad extensively, addressing international YWCA conferences in Africa, Europe and the United States, where she spoke about the ravages of apartheid.