Belle Moskowitz
Belle Moskowitz was a social reformer and political advisor so influential that, in her obituary, The New York Times called her the most powerful woman in U.S. politics.
Category Archives: Activism
Continue reading
Kihana Wilson
American astrophysicist and writer
Ilona Maher
American rugby player
Louise Campbell
English princess, sculptor, personal secretary to Queen Victoria, viceregal consort, and painter
Katherine Ross Queen
Scottish-Canadian socialist and feminist
Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer
Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer is best known for helping to found the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) in 1958 during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers
Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers was an African-American educator, community leader, political activist, and businesswoman who was also a mentor to Maya Angelou.
Amy Jacques Garvey
Jamaican journalist and activist
Marian Farquharson
In 1885, Marian Farquharson was elected as the first female fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society—but as a woman she was still prohibited from actually attending any meetings or voting on society matters.
Amy Ashwood Garvey
Jamaican activist, co-founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which was the most influential anti-colonial organisation in Jamaica for decades. Co-founder of the international Negro World newspaper, and one of the first directors of UNIA’s shipping line, the Black Star Line.