Jeanette Schoon
South African anti-apartheid activist
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Adelaine Hain
South African anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s
Zubeida Jaffer
Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements.
Albertina Sisulu
Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as the “Mother of the Nation”.
Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white American southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow.
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.
Frances Freeborn Pauley
Frances Pauley, social activist and political organizer, devoted her life to the battle against prejudice and discrimination in the southern US.
The Scripto Strikes
During the factory’s tenure in Atlanta, the African-American women workers repeatedly organized to fight for higher wages, better positions, and an end to discrimination based on race and gender. These efforts were a significant precursor to the activism that would come to define the civil rights movement.
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).
Dorothy Rogers Tilly
One of the unheralded trailblazers of the civil rights movement, Dorothy Rogers Tilly devoted her entire adult life to reforming southern race relations. Her extensive career as an activist, organizer, and mentor forged a link between the reform efforts of the early twentieth century and the modern civil rights movement.