Activism Archives - Page 69 of 319

Jean Harslett

Australian historian, naturalist and environmentalist

Doris Bardsley

Doris Bardsley was a nurse and midwife who worked for nearly 40 years in the Queensland public service in Australia.

Keran Howe

It was a car accident in 1972 that led Keran Howe towards her lifelong dedication to women’s health and advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities, particularly women.

Ana Rufatt-Ruiz

Chilean-Australian community advocate who works tirelessly to support public housing residents.

Frances Freeborn Pauley

Frances Pauley, social activist and political organizer, devoted her life to the battle against prejudice and discrimination in the southern US.

Emily Barnelia Woodward

Emily Woodward was a prominent female journalist in the early twentieth-century Southern US who became an outspoken advocate of liberal causes.

Helen A Whiting

Whiting worked hard to promote African American education and to improve classroom conditions in 1930s and ’40s Georgia (US state).

Mary Latimer McLendon

Mary Latimer McLendon, along with her older sister Rebecca Latimer Felton, was a leader in the prohibition and woman suffrage movements in Georgia (US state).

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.