Activism Archives - Page 91 of 304

Margaret Tufts Swan Yardley

Margaret Tufts Swan Yardley (1844-1928) was a founding member and the first president of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Ada Thomas

Chitimacha basketmaker

Jennie Collins

In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.

Iris Calderhead

American suffragist

Minerva Kline Brooks

Ohio suffragist who also helped organize the precursor of the Cleveland Play House (1915), and introduced interpretive dance in both Cleveland and New York City.

Judith Winsor Smith

Spending seven decades at the center of the Boston suffrage movement, Judith Winsor Smith proudly claimed, “I believed in suffrage before there was such a word in the dictionary.”

Jane Horn

She organized 1,000 church and labor union members on a trip to Washington, D.C., to march in support of the Civil Rights Act.

Helena Dudley

Director of Denison House, a woman-run settlement house that occupied three buildings In Boston for fifty years

Kip Tiernan

Indefatigable activist for social and economic justice

Caroline Callender

Caroline Callender was one of the founders of Fields Corner Industrial School and was president of the board for over twenty-five years, handling funding, staffing and the planning of programs.