Ellen Powell Thompson
American explorer and botanist
Category Archives: Activism
Continue reading
Paola Velasco
Essayist, storyteller, translator, poet, editor, screenwriter and Mexican cultural promoter
Camila Villegas Amtmann
Mexican playwright
Elizabeth Stewart Magee
Fought to secure labor-reform legislation, especially protecting women and children
Chary Gumeta
Mexican poet and art promoter.
Belkis Pulido
Mexican writer and cultural promoter
Jane Edna Hunter
Prominent African-American social worker who founded the Phillis Wheatley Assocation
Hazel Mountain Walker
The first black woman principal in the Cleveland public school system, an educator, an actress, and an advocate for racial integration.
Grace Longwell Coyle
American sociologist, author, and educator, specialized in social reform through group activity while professor at the School of Applied Sciences of Western Reserve University (later Case Western) for almost 30 years.
Carrie Williams Clifford
Orator, poet, suffragist, and an activist for women and African-Americans. She helped found the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women in 1900 and served as its first president while she lived in Cleveland.