Lady Gladys Nicholls
Lady Gladys Nicholls was a leading Aboriginal activist whose dedicated community service was an inspiration to many.
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Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleage is a fiction writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and journalist who has lived in Atlanta since 1969. In her writing, Cleage draws on her experiences as an activist for AIDS and women’s rights, and she cites the rhythms of Black life as her muse.
Jessie Mary Vasey
Founder of the War Widows’ Guild (Australia)
Marie Woolfolk Taylor
Marie Woolfolk Taylor was one of the nine founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the oldest Greek-letter organization established in America by Black college women.
Selena Sloan Butler
Selena Sloan Butler organized the first National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers (NCCPT) and cofounded the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, which is now a part of the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA).
Jennie Wyse Power
Irish nationalist and suffragist
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is respected for her work on television and in print.
Maura O’Donohue
Irish missionary doctor and public health campaigner
Edith Joyce Morgan
As Collingwood’s (Melbourne) first social worker in 1972, she led the development of community services provided on the basis of rights not charity.
Dr Liane Russell
Austrian-American geneticist and environmentalist