Category: Women

Joan Baez

Peacemaker Daniel Buttry profiles singer and activist Joan Baez with some of the best video clips of her performances, including ‘We Shall Overcome.’

Carrie Newcomer

Profile and video clip of singer songwriter Carrie Newcomer, a Quaker activist, teacher and musician from Indiana who circles the world as a peacemaker.

The Rev. Sandra Kay Gordon

Interfaith Peacemakers, a series of inspiring profiles, tells the story of the Rev Sandra Kay Gordon, a pioneering African-American woman pastor in Detroit.

Michelle Alexander

By Daniel Hunter and Dan Buttry Michelle Alexander tells the story of working as a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union on the problem of DWB—“Driving While Black.” She met a young African-American man with extensive documentation of various police stops while he was driving. At first it seemed that he was an excellent… Read more »

Jeannette Rankin

Author Daniel Buttry profiles Jeanette Rankin, the only person in Congress to vote against participation in both World War I and World War II.