Activism Archives - Page 20 of 203

Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza

Juana Belén Gutiérrez wrote radical feminist literature against Catholicism, political corruption, and social injustices during the Porfiriato.

Joan Curran

Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.

Cam Nguyen

Cam Nguyen has been a leading figure in ethnic community services in Australia for over thirty years.

Estella Crosby

Beautician and community activist who formed the Boston unit of the Housewives League with Geneva Arrington and E. Alice Taylor.

Geneva Arrington

Co-founder of the Boston unit of the Housewives League

Geraldine Pindell Trotter

Associate editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights.

Harriet C Hall

As president of the Women’s Service Club, she spearheaded the WSC’s drive to allow African Americans to live in dormitories of local educational institutions.

When the Union United Methodist Church was located in Lower Roxbury in 1916, the Women’s Home Missionary Society, under the leadership of Hattie B. Cooper (1862–1949), provided services for the growing population of African Americans in that area.

Julia O Henson

Donated her townhouse to the Harriet Tubman Crusaders, an African-American branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Boston, as a residence for African-American women who were excluded from the city’s college dormitories and respectable rooming houses.