Activism Archives - Page 214 of 305

Yamada Waka

Prominent Japanese feminist who advocated social reform during Japan’s late Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras.

Ismat Chughtai

Indian Urdu writer known for novels, short stories, and films.

Irena Sendler

Vital member of the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw, heading the children’s section of Żegota from October 1943.

Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai

Vietnamese revolutionary leader within the Indochinese Communist Party during the 1930s.

Dorothea Erxleben

Germany’s first female doctor.

Jeannette Rankin

In 1916, Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana.

Ramona Bennett

American Puyallup leader and advocate whose indomitable spirit ignited the 1960s and 1970s Fish Wars in the US Pacific Northwest.

Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.