Activism Collection (#2)

Emmeline Pankhurst, 1938 (b/w photo)
5323218 Emmeline Pankhurst, 1938 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Emmeline Pankhurst, nee Goulden, 1858-1928)

Lydia Maria Child portrait
NWI4950529 Lydia Maria Child portrait.; (add.info.: Lydia Maria Child portrait.); Photo © North Wind Pictures

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with her autograph
NWI4950451 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with her autograph.; (add.info.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with her autograph.); Photo © North Wind Pictures

Minna Canth
3078274 Minna Canth; (add.info.: Portrait of Minna Canth (1844-1897) a Finnish writer and social activist. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

The Irish Rebellion of 1916 showing the wreckage of barriers and burnt out cars in Dublin
3058446 The Irish Rebellion of 1916 showing the wreckage of barriers and burnt out cars in Dublin. Inset Sir Roger Casement, 1864 - 1916

Edward Carpenter, 1844 - 1929. English socialist poet, socialist philosopher, anthologist and early gay activist
2638464 Edward Carpenter, 1844 - 1929. English socialist poet, socialist philosopher, anthologist and early gay activist. From Bibby's Annual published 1910.; Private Collection; Photo ©

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz, 1851
1577140 Adam Bernard Mickiewicz, 1851; (add.info.: Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (1798 - 1855) was a Polish poet, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist

Portrait of Giuseppe Mazzini
673279 Portrait of Giuseppe Mazzini; (add.info.: Giuseppe Mazzini 1805 - 10 March 1872, Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy)

Louise Otto-Peters, German writer, suffragist and women's rights activist (b/w photo)
8626414 Louise Otto-Peters, German writer, suffragist and women's rights activist (b/w photo) by German Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Thomas Attwood
5308284 Thomas Attwood.; (add.info.: Portrait of Thomas Attwood (1783-1856) a British banker, economist, political campaigner and Member of Parliament. Dated 19th century

French illustration depicting a campaigner for universal suffrage sabotaging a railway train. Circa 1840
5304850 French illustration depicting a campaigner for universal suffrage sabotaging a railway train. Circa 1840; (add.info)

Dorothea Dix, with autograph
NWI4950004 Dorothea Dix, with autograph.; (add.info.: Dorothea Dix, with autograph.); Photo © North Wind Pictures

Portrait of Karl von Rotteck, 19th century (engraving)
3521742 Portrait of Karl von Rotteck, 19th century (engraving); (add.info.: Portrait of Karl von Rotteck (1775-1840) German political activist, historian

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1850
3478047 Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1850; (add.info.: Cartoon depicting Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton (1829-1906) an English temperance campaigner and radical

Thomas Paine, 1776
1574907 Thomas Paine, 1776; (add.info.: Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary)

Portrait of Huch Price Hughes
672671 Portrait of Huch Price Hughes; (add.info.: Huch Price Hughes - Woodbury Hugh Price Hughes (9 February 1847 - 17 November 1902), was a Welsh Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition

Suffrage Hay wagon, USA c.1910-5 (b/w photo)
1128830 Suffrage Hay wagon, USA c.1910-5 (b/w photo); Private Collection

The Socialist Conference in Tours, 1920 (photo)
1759473 The Socialist Conference in Tours, 1920 (photo); (add.info.: The Socialist Conference in Tours, France december 25-30, 1920. Front, in the c : Leon Blum); Photo: Tallandier

George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950). Irish playwright, critic, political activist and Nobel Prizewinner
3058420 George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950). Irish playwright, critic, political activist and Nobel Prizewinner. From The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures, published 1935

1776 - Retouching an Old Masterpiece - 1915, Life magazine cover, 1st July 1915 (colour litho)
3709799 1776 - Retouching an Old Masterpiece - 1915, Life magazine cover, 1st July 1915 (colour litho) by Stahr, Paul C. (1883-1953); Private Collection; (add.info)

Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst, 1903 (photo)
3305193 Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst, 1903 (photo); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, DBE (1880 - 1958), was a suffragette born in Manchester, England

Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested outside Buckingham Palace in 1914 (b/w photo)
3058440 Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested outside Buckingham Palace in 1914 (b/w photo); (add.info.: Seen here being arrested)

Emmeline Pankhurst carrying a petition from the Third Women's Parliament to the Prime Minister on February 13th
STC321032 Emmeline Pankhurst carrying a petition from the Third Women's Parliament to the Prime Minister on February 13th

The Tours Congress, from L'Humanite, December 1920 (b/w photo)
CHT202846 The Tours Congress, from L'Humanite, December 1920 (b/w photo); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; (add.info.: at the Annual Congress of the French Socialist Party in Tours)

The late Walter Savage Landor, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The late Walter Savage Landor, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Herbert Watkins. Our readers may...look with some interest upon the portrait of a man of great originality and force of mind

Tsianina, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Tsianina, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone (1882-1985), a singer and performer of Creek and Cherokee ancestry

Suf. [i.e. suffrage] parade, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Suf. [i.e. suffrage] parade, 1917. Shows women carrying a ballot box in a women's suffrage parade, New York City, Oct. 27, 1917

H.C. Wallace, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
H.C. Wallace, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Henry Cantwell Wallace (1866-1924), Secretary of Agriculture during President Harding's Administration

Maxim Gorky, seated with heavy coat on, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Maxim Gorky, seated with heavy coat on, 1910

Healy, Fitzgerald, Mahon, Frayne, 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Healy, Fitzgerald, Mahon, Frayne, 1916. Shows Timothy Healy, William B. Fitzgerald, William D. Mahon, Hugh Frayne (general organizer in New York for the American Federation of Labor)

The Socialist Congress in Tours, France december 25-30, 1920. Front, in the c : Leon Blum
1755812 The Socialist Congress in Tours, France december 25-30, 1920. Front, in the c : Leon Blum; (add.info.: The Socialist Congress in Tours, France december 25-30, 1920)

Mrs. Eugene Meyer Jr. portrait photograph, 1918 July 2. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. Eugene Meyer Jr. portrait photograph, 1918 July 2. American journalist, philanthropist, civil rights activist and patron of the arts Agnes E

Miss Charlotte Hoffman Kellogg, portrait photograph, 1918. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Miss Charlotte Hoffman Kellogg, portrait photograph, 1918. American author and social activist

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Mandela (1918-2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 2020s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 2020s, (2023). Desmond Mpilo Tutu (1931-2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Rosa Parks sitting on a bus, 1950s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Rosa Parks sitting on a bus, 1950s, (2023). African-American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1990s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1990s, (2023). Lady Diana Spencer (1961-1997) married Charles, Prince of Wales in 1981

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1980s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1980s, (2023). Lady Diana Spencer (1961-1997) married Charles, Prince of Wales in 1981

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1980s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1980s, (2023). Lady Diana Spencer (1961-1997) married Charles, Prince of Wales in 1981

Le Nouveau Regime; Catherine Brechkovsky, la rentree de Siberie a la faveur du changement de regime, 1917. First World War: the New Regime - Catherine Breshkovsky

AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1930s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1930s, (2023). Shaw, (1856-1950), was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1920s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1920s, (2023). Shaw, (1856-1950), was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Mandela (1918-2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Mandela (1918-2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Muhammad Ali standing in a boxing ring, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Muhammad Ali standing in a boxing ring, 1960s, (2023). Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (1942-2016), was an African-American professional boxer and activist

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Muhammad Ali standing in a boxing ring, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Muhammad Ali standing in a boxing ring, 1960s, (2023). Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (1942-2016), was an African-American professional boxer and activist

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Muhammad Ali standing in a boxing ring, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Muhammad Ali standing in a boxing ring, 1960s, (2023). Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (1942-2016), was an African-American professional boxer and activist

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Muhammad Ali standing in a boxing ring, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Muhammad Ali standing in a boxing ring, 1960s, (2023). Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (1942-2016), was an African-American professional boxer and activist

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"Activism: A Global Movement for Change" Revolutionary art takes center stage at the Museum of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba, showcasing the power of creativity as a catalyst for social change. From vibrant murals to thought-provoking sculptures, this museum serves as a testament to the indomitable spirit of activism. In Germany, Rosa Luxemburg emerges as an influential Marxist activist, challenging societal norms and fighting tirelessly for workers' rights. Her legacy continues to inspire generations striving for equality and justice. London becomes a hotbed of demonstrations, with Tariq Ali leading the charge. As a writer, journalist, and filmmaker, Ali fearlessly uses his platform to shed light on pressing issues and mobilize communities towards meaningful action. Mabel Tuke stands proudly as Joint Honourary Secretary of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1908. With unwavering determination, she advocates for women's suffrage and paves the way for future feminist movements worldwide. Bertrand Russell sits humbly on London's pavement alongside fellow protesters during a Committee of 100 demonstration against nuclear weapons. This British philosopher's commitment to peace resonates through time as he champions non-violent resistance against global threats. A London march against racialism unites diverse voices in solidarity against discrimination. Together they challenge systemic racism while fostering inclusivity and understanding within society. The fight against apartheid reaches Lord's cricket ground where passionate demonstrators demand justice and equality. Their unwavering stance sends ripples across nations determined to dismantle oppressive regimes. Even sports become battlegrounds for activism when protests erupt against Lions playing South Africa during apartheid years. Athletes use their platforms not only for competition but also as powerful tools advocating human rights globally. Mike Terry leads with conviction at annual general meetings where activists gather to strategize collective efforts towards change. His inspiring speeches galvanize individuals into action while strengthening community bonds that fuel the movement.