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Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams

American educator and a political, social, civic, and community activist who was instrumental in campaigns to rename various Little Rock streets in honor of Daisy Bates and Mayor Charles Bussey.

Barbara Deming

American writer and activist for peace, human rights, and related causes.

Maggie Kuhn

Founder of The Gray Panthers

Annie Lee Cooper

American civil rights activist

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.