Activism Archives - Page 149 of 317

Julia Bullard Nelson

Nelson spent the summers of the 1870s and 1880s in Minnesota, where she emerged as a state and national leader in the movement for women’s suffrage and the temperance campaign against alcohol use.

Irene Levine Paull

Writer and activist Irene Levine Paull responded to discrimination by fighting for the rights of people who were oppressed.

Florence Rood was one of the first Minnesota women activists in the Farmer Labor movement. She worked to improve the treatment of teachers and was active in their local and national organizations. Many of the successful struggles in which she participated informed the public of the importance of education and laid the groundwork for improved working conditions for educators.

Jane Smith Williamson

Jane Williamson was a schoolteacher and anti-slavery activist in Ohio before she came to the Presbyterian Dakota Mission at Lac qui Parle in 1843. She spent the remaining fifty-two years of her life working with Dakota people.

Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens

Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens (1869-1943) was a sculptor, activist, and member of the Cornish Art Colony.

Dorothy Richardson Buell

Inspired by women’s success to conserve a state park and motivated by looming industrialization, the dignified Dorothy Buell rallied public support and was instrumental in the battle to establish a national park in the Indiana Dunes.

Erna P O’Harris

Erna P. Harris (1908–95) was an African American columnist who defended Japanese Americans.

Lorraine Bannai

Attorney, law professor and member of Fred Korematsu’s coram nobis team.

Mitsuye Endo

Plaintiff in the landmark lawsuit that ultimately led to the closing of the concentration camps and the return of Japanese Americans to the West Coast in 1945.

Nikki Sawada Bridges Flynn

Noriko “Nikki” Sawada Bridges Flynn was a San Francisco-based activist who advocated for civil liberties, equality and democracy.