Joanne Woodward
Academy Award–winning actress and activist who ranks among the most well-respected actors of the twentieth century.
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Emily Taft Douglas
In 1944 U.S. Congresswoman Emily Taft Douglas, a proponent of overseas humanitarian projects and a postwar United Nations Organization, defeated one of the most strident isolationists in the House of Representatives, heralding, as some observers believed, the triumph of American internationalism.
Helen Newton Thompson
South African anti-apartheid political activist and founding member of the Black Sash
Sheila Weinberg
South African political, anti-apartheid and human rights activist
Sheila Lapinsky
South African anti-apartheid, women’s rights and queer rights activist
Rita Ndzanga
South African anti-apartheid, labor rights and women’s rights activist
Ruth Alexander
South African suffragist
Ruth Elizabeth Arndt
Canadian-South African education activist
Ruth Mompati
South African anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist
Tania Leon
South African anti-apartheid, women’s rights and queer rights activist