With a voice that “comes once in a century,” Anderson was the first black singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955. Undaunted, she sang at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939, to an audience of 75,000. by the Daughters of the American Revolution-because she was black. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, the first American woman so honored, for her unending dedication to the causes of peace and social justice.Īnderson was denied permission to perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. From 1919 until her death, Addams was president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Adamson has aided indigenous peoples in Australia and Africa also and has received many awards for mobilizing and unifying people to solve common problems.Īddams founded Hull House in Chicago in 1889, America’s first settlement house providing English language classes, childcare, health education, and recreational programs for poor immigrant families.
This group has established new standards of accountability regarding federal responsibility and reservation land reform and has an operating budget of about three million dollars. Well respected, her opinions were influential in government affairs before, during, and after her husband’s term as president.Ī member of the Cherokee nation, in 1980 Adamson founded the First Nations Development Institute. In over two thousand letters written to her husband John, to family and friends, and to government officials, she articulately expressed her ideas on the American Revolution, the new nation, the American family, foreign courts, and war. In 1990, she co-founded the International Women’s Environment and Development Organization to provide visibility and support for working women.Īs a self-educated woman, Adams held well-informed strong political beliefs. She was presiding officer at the first government sponsored women’s conference at Houston in 1977. She served 3 terms in Congress (1970–1976) where she worked to end the Vietnam War and the draft. Abzug was a founder and national legislative director of Women Strike for Peace from 1961 to 1970.
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