Emily Hobhouse
British humanitarian and pacifist active in South Africa
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Ela Gandhi
Indian-South African peace and civil rights activist
Christabel Bielenberg
British expat who wrote about her experience of the rise of Hitler in Germany
Anna Helfgott
Anna Helfgott was a vigorous activist for progressive causes and a leader in Seattle’s Gray Panthers. In her working years she was a dressmaker and fitter, and was an early member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU).
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.
Lucia McCurdy McBride
Ohio suffragist
Caroline Love Goodwin O’Day
A longtime suffragist with strong ties to New York politics and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Caroline O’Day was an unwavering supporter of New Deal legislation and a fervent pacifist during her four terms in the US House of Representatives.
Eleanor Moore
A leading pacifist, in 1915, Eleanor Moore was a founding member and International Secretary of the Sisterhood for International Peace.
Ardeth Platte
Nun, anti-nuclear activist and ‘peacemaker in a hostile world’
Dr Steffie Woolhandler
1986: Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler helped found Physicians for a National Health Program, a not-for-profit organization for physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals who advocate a national health insurance program.