Activism > Peace Archives - Page 2 of 11

Mary Ware Dennett

American women’s rights activist, pacifist, homeopathic advocate and trailblazer in the areas of birth control, sex education and suffrage, who co-founded the National Birth Control League in 1915

Maria Lacerda de Moura

Brazilian feminist and pacifist

Eunice Hunton Carter

One of New York’s first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States.

Eulalie Stott

South African political activist

Emily Hobhouse

British humanitarian and pacifist active in South Africa

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 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