Mitsu Yashima
Japanese-American artist, children’s book author, and civic activist who worked with the OSS (predecessor to the CIA)
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Rosika Schwimmer
Rosika Schwimmer was a Hungarian peace activist, suffragist, and feminist.
Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman was one of the most visible Progressive reformers of the early twentieth century United States.
Florence Luscomb
Participating in women’s rights, civil rights, labor, and peace movements throughout the 1900s, Florence Luscomb embodied what it means to be an activist.
Toby Riddle
Toby Riddle was a Modoc woman who served as a translator for the US Army during the Modoc War of 1872 to 1873.
Dr Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton promoted “industrial medicine” and laws to protect employees from dangerous substances in the workplace.
Hilary Boyle
Irish journalist, broadcaster, and activist
Jane Ewart-Biggs
British politician and President of the British Committee of UNICEF, later serving as the Labour Party’s spokesperson on home affairs, consumer affairs and overseas development.
Mary McCarthy
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and political activist
Sally Low
New Zealand teacher, social reformer and peace campaigner