Alice Childress
American playwright, actress, and author
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Laudelina de Campos Melo
Afro-Brazilian activist and labor organizer.
Dolores Cacuango
Pioneering advocate for indigenous and farmer rights in Ecuador, who played a key role in the early Ecuadorian feminist movement from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Emilia Dilke
British author, art historian, feminist, and trade unionist.
Luisa Capetillo
Iconic figure in Puerto Rico’s labor history. An anarchist writer and relentless activist, she championed labor rights, women’s empowerment, free love, and human emancipation.
Mary Fitzgerald
South African trade unionist and socialist
Aoua Keïta
Aoua Keïta was a Malian midwife, activist, and politician, recognized as a prominent figure in Mali’s struggle for independence, trade unionism, and feminism.
Alina Pienkowska
Alina Pienkowska was a nurse who played a significant role in the Solidarność movement against the communist regime in Poland.
Rahima Moosa
One of four South African women who mobilised support and organised the huge protest that was to take place on August the 9th 1956 at the Union Buildings, the seat of the apartheid government.
Marija Jurić Zagorka
The first professional political journalist in Croatia and South East Europe, a women’s rights’ advocate, one of the most widely-read Croatian writers ever, a co-founder of the Croatian Journalists Association, a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, one of the early pioneers of science fiction, the founder of the first women’s trade union organization in Croatia.