Florence Kelley
Florence Kelley dedicated her life to social reform. She worked to end many social problems, including labor and racial discrimination. She influenced many social movements in the United States.
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Mother Jones
The most famous female labor activist of the nineteenth century, Mary Harris Jones—aka “Mother Jones”—was a self-proclaimed “hell-raiser” in the cause of economic justice. She was so strident that a US attorney once labeled her “the most dangerous woman in America.”
Pauli Murray
Held back by what Murray dubbed “Jane Crow,” s/he* was a staunch advocate for the rights of women and people of color and fought tirelessly for civil rights. As a poet, writer, activist, organizer, legal theorist, and priest, Murray was directly involved in, and helped articulate, the intellectual foundations of two of the most important social justice movements of the twentieth century.
Eulalie Nibizi
Eulalie Nibizi is a Burundian trade unionist and human rights activist.
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková was a Moravian teacher, editor and women’s rights activist.
Teresa Villarreal
Teresa Villarreal González was a feminist, labor organizer, and political activist who supported the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) and the Mexican Revolution (1910–17).
Andrea Villarreal
Andrea Villarreal was a teacher, poet, feminist, labor organizer, and revolutionary.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Over her more than 50-year career, she published novels, volumes of poetry and short story collections.
Susan Fowler
Susan Joy Fowler is a writer and software engineer known for influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies respond to sexual harassment.
Luisa Moreno
Luisa Moreno was a labor organizer and civil rights activist in the United States.