Activism Archives - Page 72 of 304

Maysoon Zayid

Palestinian-American comedian with cerebral palsy

Helen Morton (1898-1991) was a long-time Boston activist, beginning with her service as a worker in the South End House in 1922 after she graduated from the Simmons College School of Social Work. In 1945, she helped with post war restoration in Europe.

Margaret Tobin Brown

The “unsinkable Molly Brown,” philanthropist, suffragist and Titanic survivor

Mildred Loving

In Loving v. Virginia, decided on June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down Virginia’s law prohibiting interracial marriages as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Dr Teresa Lozano Long

American arts patron

Miranda Restovic

Executive director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

For thirty years Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve has written children’s books with the intention of dispelling stereotypes and negative images of Native Americans. She has brought the richness of Native American culture and heritage to thousands of children.

Kay Boyle

20th century American writer

Beatrix Potter

Mycologist and beloved children’s author

Esther Peterson

In 1961, labor activist Esther Peterson, the head of the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor, urged President Kennedy to establish the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in order to develop recommendations for achieving gender equality.