Ardeth Platte
Nun, anti-nuclear activist and ‘peacemaker in a hostile world’
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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.
Barbara Lee
US Representative from California
Bella Abzug
Bella Abzug, feminist and civil rights advocate, embodied many Americans’ discontent with the political establishment in the tumultuous Vietnam War era. She gained notoriety as one of the most colorful and controversial House Members during the 1970s.
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.
Rosamond Jacob
20th century Irish suffragist, republican, and writer
Helena Dudley
Director of Denison House, a woman-run settlement house that occupied three buildings In Boston for fifty years
Ione Kenny Biggs
American advocate for peace and human rights
Dorothy Daggett Eldridge
Dorothy Daggett Eldridge (1903-1986) a peace activist, founded the New Jersey Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) in 1958.
Shirley Staschen Triest
Coit Tower muralist and labor protester