African Descent Archives - Page 22 of 125

Adelaide Tambo

South African political activist

Zubeida Jaffer

Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements.

Albertina Sisulu

Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as the “Mother of the Nation”.

Ella D Wilson

African American sex worker living in Skagway, Alaska during the gold rush

Kudzai Kanhutu

Zimbabwean doctor and associate professor Kudzai Kanhutu is a powerful advocate for health systems and gender equity in Australia.

Helen A Whiting

Whiting worked hard to promote African American education and to improve classroom conditions in 1930s and ’40s Georgia (US state).

During the factory’s tenure in Atlanta, the African-American women workers repeatedly organized to fight for higher wages, better positions, and an end to discrimination based on race and gender. These efforts were a significant precursor to the activism that would come to define the civil rights movement.

Neithhotep

Neithhotep may have been the first recorded female monarch in world history, circa 3,000 to 3200 BC. She is believed to have been married to either the first or second pharaoh of unified Egypt.

Sobekneferu

Sobekneferu is believed to be the first female Pharaoh to rule Egypt in her own right, to claim to full titles of a pharaoh, and is also the first woman listed in the Turin King List, an ancient papyrus scroll compiled during the reign of Rameses II in the 1200s BC of all the pharaohs that came before.