Elizabeth Furse
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.
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Alice Hobbins Porter
British-American journalist
Maggie Condon
Irish-American labor leader
Hannah O’Day
Early 1900s Irish-American labor leader
Celeste Liddle
Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, freelance writer, social commentator and public speaker.
Karen Silkwood
Silkwood was a chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee’s plutonium fuels production plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, and a member of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers’ Union. She was also an activist who was critical of plant safety and her suspicious death remains unsolved.
Madeleine ffrench-Mullen
Irish nationalist and social advocate
Mary Gilmore
In 1928, poet Dame Mary Gilmore founded the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Mary Owen
In 1975, Mary Owen (1921-2017) and Sylvie Shaw co-founded the Working Women’s Centre.
Margaret Tufts Swan Yardley
Margaret Tufts Swan Yardley (1844-1928) was a founding member and the first president of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs.