Activism Archives - Page 69 of 318

Lillian Smith

Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white American southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow.

Leila Denmark

Leila Denmark was the oldest practicing pediatrician in the United States when she retired in 2001 at the age of 103. In seventy years of practice, Denmark rarely charged patients more than ten dollars for an office consultation, and it was not unusual for her to spend an hour counseling a new mother.

Julia Flisch

Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray, an environmental activist and poet, is the award-winning author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a highly praised book that combines elements of ecology and autobiography into a multifaceted work.

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.

Jane Yarn

Jane Hurt Yarn was a conservationist and environmentalist who single-handedly helped save thousands of acres of wild land in Georgia (US state) and around the nation.

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.