Activism Archives - Page 66 of 319

Amelia Stone Quinton

1800s advocate for Native American education

Ninfa Tanguma and her daughter Yolanda Alaníz, provided determined leadership for Latinas in their transition from rural to urban areas. In 1970 Tanguma took her turn at picket duty in a hop-ranch strike in Yakima.

Frances Martínez

A former farm worker, she worked until the end of her life helping Latinos find jobs, housing, and counseling. Through El Centro de la Raza, she organized emergency food programs and classes, and secured legal advice for recent arrivals to Seattle.

Hortensia Villanueva

Hortensia Villanueva formed a mothers’ club in December 1994. The wife of a union leader in Eastern Washington, Villanueva used space at the Farm Workers’ Clinic to organize the mothers of children who came down with contagious virus infections.

Christabel Bielenberg

British expat who wrote about her experience of the rise of Hitler in Germany

Ida Culver

Ida Culver was a Seattle Public Schools elementary teacher, a founding member of the Seattle Education Auxiliary and first president of the Seattle Teachers Finance Association. She was a shrewd investor who left a legacy of retirement homes for educators and their families.

Agripina Restrepo de Norris

Colombian author, editor and activist

Elsie Bramell

Elsie Bramell, the first female anthropologist appointed to the Australian Museum, was on the staff from 1933 until 1941 when she was required to resign upon her marriage to fellow Museum anthropologist Frederick McCarthy.

Lee Minto

Lee Minto (b. 1927), executive director of Planned Parenthood of Seattle-King County from 1967 until her retirement in 1993, played a key role in the campaign for Referendum 20, which legalized abortion in Washington state in 1970.

Dr Rita Stang

Rita Stang was medical officer of schools in the Western Australian Public Health Department from 1925, and supervisor of infant health in Western Australia from 1929, until her retirement in 1955. She worked to improve hygiene and children’s diets and put many measures into place to assist families in isolated areas with mothercraft.