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.
American reform activist and a suffragist who led the national League of Women Voters during 1924-1934.
A founding member of the New South Wales Nurses Association (NSWNA) in 1931, she was its first Honorary Secretary and the first woman to hold such a position in an industrial organisation in Australia.
Irish surgeon and political activist
Irish union official and media professional
In 1961, labor activist Esther Peterson, the head of the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor, urged President Kennedy to establish the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in order to develop recommendations for achieving gender equality.
For a quarter century in the House, America knew Mary T. Norton as “Battling Mary,” a reformer who fought for the labor and working-class interests of her urban New Jersey district.
US Senator from California
A prominent labor lawyer, Colleen Hanabusa served in the Hawaii state senate for a dozen years before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010.
Born in the colonial British Empire, Elizabeth Furse became an anti-apartheid activist, an advocate for migrant farm workers and Native Americans, and founder of a peace institute.