Hilda Bernstein
British-South African author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women’s rights
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Margaret Chuene Mncadi
South African doctor and activist
Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
South African anti-apartheid activist
Linda Komape
Komape fought for the rights of workers through trade unions, and for the rights of women in South Africa.
Magasvarie Govender
South African trade unionist and political activist
Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
South African labor rights activist
Mabel Balfour
Mabel Balfour was a South African trade unionist and an anti-apartheid activist.
Madi Gray
South African anti-apartheid activist
M N Bhola
South African organizer of the women’s section of the African National Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s onward in the Western Cape, and the first woman to stand trial on the ‘hostility’ charge.
Claudine Schneider
The first woman elected from Rhode Island to the U.S. House of Representatives, Schneider earned a reputation as one of the House’s strongest environmental advocates.