Politics Archives - Page 69 of 130

Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza

Juana Belén Gutiérrez wrote radical feminist literature against Catholicism, political corruption, and social injustices during the Porfiriato.

Hermila Galindo

Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.

Hallie Flanagan

Hallie Flanagan (1890–1969) was sworn in as director of the Federal Theatre Project on August 29, 1935.

Pauline Léon

Léon is most remembered for her militancy and enthusiasm for taking action (often violent) to defend the French Revolution against the tyranny of the monarchy.

Presidents Díaz and later Huerta often imprisoned Dolores Jiménez y Muro, a socialist and political activist from Aguascalientes, for her work on many leftist journals, including La Mujer Mexicana, where she was a member of the editorial staff.

Annie Kriegel

During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.

Blanche Grambs

American printmaker and social activist

Mary Colbert

Mary Colbert (1890-1982) was a political activist for more than four decades and worked on JFK’s campaign.

Susan Walker Fitzgerald

The first woman Democrat elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature. Having worked actively in the statewide suffrage campaign, she was elected in 1922 and served one term.

Beryl Platt

Helped establish the Women Into Science and Engineering Year in 1984.