Activism Archives - Page 133 of 203

Nkenge Touré

Nkenge Touré is an activist whose expansive collection of speeches and written works confront issues around reproductive justice, Black feminism, and women’s rights.

Etta Horn was a prominent welfare rights advocate. As an activist, she worked alongside other anti-poverty organizers to improve the living conditions of low-income DC residents. Though she had many successes, Horn is widely celebrated for her work with the Citywide Welfare Alliance.

Mary Kate Ryan

Irish academic and political activist

Min Ryan

Irish teacher and political activist

Agnes McCullough

Irish teacher, activist and philanthropist

Brigid McCole

Irish hepatitis C campaigner

Dr Patricia Sheehan

Irish medical doctor, speech therapist, and campaigner against nuclear power

Dagmar Šimková

Following the communist coup of February 1948 in Czechoslovakia, as many as 100,000 people were prosecuted for ‘political crimes’, most of whom were sentenced to lengthy periods in penal institutions and forced labour camps, including Dagmar Šimková, who later produced a detailed autobiographical account of her experiences in prison, Byly jsme tam taky [“We were there too”].

Mary Edith Dunlop

Irish campaigner for the welfare of the blind

Jane Franklin

When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.