Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité
She became the first Empress of Haiti after her marriage to General Jean-Jacques Dessalines who crowned himself emperor of Haiti on October 8, 1804.
Category Archives: Activism
Continue reading
Channyn Parker
Channyn Parker works as the Manager of the TransLife Center of Chicago House.
Mary White Ovington
Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.
Rose O’Neill
Rose Cecil O’Neill was a self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.
Golde Bamber
Golde Bamber (1868–1951) led efforts to support Boston’s Jewish immigrant youth, founding the Hecht House, a vital community hub, in 1936.
Beth Schultz
Beth’s involvement in the environment movement came through defence of Western Australia’s Karri forests against woodchipping. In 1975, she became the first secretary of the activist Campaign to Save Native Forests and soon afterwards, the Co-convenor of the more science-based South-West Forests Defence Foundation.
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild (1914-2008) worked at the Harvard Observatory from approximately 1935 to 1938.
Abby Williams May
American suffragist and educator
Adelia Field Johnston
American educator
Louise-Reine Audu
A fruit seller who was active in the French Revolution, including the Women’s March on Versailles and the storming of the Tuileries Palace. She was singled out to present her grievances to King Louis XVI along with a small delegation of other women.