The name says it all, does it not? Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to ever lead a major Native American tribe when she became the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1985. Her surname was passed down from[…]
Category: Woman Activists
Yuri Kochiyama
Born in 1921 in San Pedro, CA as the daughter of two affluent Japanese immigrants, Yuri Kochiyama (born Mary Yuriko Nakahara) had her whole world turned upside down on December 7, 1941 with the attack on Pearl Harbor. At 20-years-old she[…]
The Unsung Heroines of Stonewall: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera
Important Terms: Transgender: (adj.) denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender. Transvestite: (n.) a person, typically a man, who derives pleasure from dressing in clothes traditionally worn by the opposite sex.[…]