Activism Archives - Page 18 of 317

Nancy Morton

Enslaved woman who fought a legal battle for her freedom

Nahnebahwequay

1800s Ojibwa spokeswoman

Native Hawaiian was a scholar, poet, activist, and revolutionary known for her deep historical and cultural analysis of US Imperialism and oppression in Hawai’i. She was also an iconic figure in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement.

Beth Takekawa

Former executive director of the Wing Luke Museum

Anne Smith-Young

Founded non-profit organization (Continence Restored, Inc. 1975) that disseminates information on bladder control problems to people with the problem, people interested in the problem and help create and awareness about having urinary incontinence.

Marcella Rossein

She focused her political activity on organizing and actively fighting against anti-Semitism, racial oppression, fighting for civil rights and equality for working people from a leftist prospective.

Linda Boston

In 2001 she established the non-profit 501(c) (3) corporation PEER, Inc., (Portable Educational Entertainment Repertoire, designed to take the arts and/or educational presentations, workshops, and programming where they often are not received.