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.
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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
Rose Standish Nichols
Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1964) was among the first well-known women landscape architects and a lifelong pacifist
Emily Greene Balch
Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her indefatigable work for peace, in particular with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Rose Finkelstein Norwood
Indefatigable union activist and organizer.
Alice Locke Park
Park became a key member of the influential network of socialist-feminist women in California and fought for women’s emancipation.