Category: Women

Ella Baker

Peacemaker and author Daniel Buttry profiles Ella Baker (1903-1986), a civil rights hero with the NAACP whose activism included the Montgomery bus boycott.

Diane Nash

Peacemaker and author Daniel Buttry profiles civil rights activist Diane Nash, who played a courageous role in Tennessee and among the Freedom Riders.

Mother Maria Skobtsova

Peacemaker Daniel Buttry profiles Mother Maria Skobtsova, recognized as an Orthodox Christian saint partly for her work rescuing Jews from the Holocaust.

Rusudan Gotsiridze

Author Daniel Buttry profiles his colleague Georgian Bishop Rusudan Gotsiridze, a peacemaker and the first woman to become a Baptist bishop in her homeland.

Aung San Suu Kyi (b. 1945)

Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese activist and politician who won a seat in Parliament after 15 years under house arrest for opposition to Burmese dictatorship.