Amy Jacques Garvey
Jamaican journalist and activist
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Sigrid Schultz
Berlin bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune during the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party
Amy Ashwood Garvey
Jamaican activist, co-founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which was the most influential anti-colonial organisation in Jamaica for decades. Co-founder of the international Negro World newspaper, and one of the first directors of UNIA’s shipping line, the Black Star Line.
Zora Cross
Australian writer and actor
Helen Kirkpatrick
Journalist and war correspondent
Dickey Chapelle
Photojournalist and war correspondent
Adah Lee Pettey Roussan
Adah Lee Pettey Roussan was a pioneering American newspaperwoman who took over the Osceola Times after the death of her husband, running it from 1906 to 1918. An indefatigable progressive, she championed political reforms and societal betterment.
Kylie Tennant
One of Australia’s most prominent writers in the mid-20th century, known especially for her socialist realist portrayals of the hardships of the working class and unemployed
Bobbi Sykes
Forced out of school early by racism, she became a nurse, before working as a journalist. She helped to found the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern, and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, among many other entities. In the early 1970s, as a prominent activist for Aboriginal rights, Sykes was invited to speak on racism, rights and colonialism in countries including the UK, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
Gerda Taro
Before Gerda Taro became the first woman photojournalist to die while covering a war on the front lines, she worked with her lover Endre Friedmann. Together they collaborated on work attributed to “Robert Capa,” an American persona intended to protect European Jewish artists from increasing political tensions on the continent in the 1930s