Activism Archives - Page 56 of 304

Eleanor Torrey West

In 1978 the US state of Georgia acquired Ossabaw Island through the efforts of Eleanor Torrey West, and it became the state’s first heritage preserve, for scientific and cultural research and environmental preservation.

The Scripto Strikes

During the factory’s tenure in Atlanta, the African-American women workers repeatedly organized to fight for higher wages, better positions, and an end to discrimination based on race and gender. These efforts were a significant precursor to the activism that would come to define the civil rights movement.

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin

Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).

Helen Matthews Lewis

In her dual role as academic and social activist, Lewis helped found the discipline of Appalachian Studies and served for several decades as one of its most influential leaders.

Dorothy Rogers Tilly

One of the unheralded trailblazers of the civil rights movement, Dorothy Rogers Tilly devoted her entire adult life to reforming southern race relations. Her extensive career as an activist, organizer, and mentor forged a link between the reform efforts of the early twentieth century and the modern civil rights movement.

Elsie Inglis

Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

C Mildred Thompson

Prominent American historian, educator, and feminist who made a name for herself not only in academic circles but also in both Democratic politics and international affairs.

Mathilda Cecilia Allen

Mathilda Allen helped lead a drawn-out women’s suffrage campaign in Washington, culminating in 1910 with ratification of a right-to-vote amendment in the Washington State Constitution.

Karleen Plunkett

Karleen is a proud Australian woman with a disability, who works to empower others with disabilities and influence systemic change.

Maud Gonne

Irish nationalist, political activist, and subject of most of the love poetry of W. B. Yeats