Jan Geertsz

On this date in 1564 (Dec. 15th), Jan Geertsz was burned at the stake in ‪#‎TheHague‬, Netherlands. He was an ‪#‎Anabaptist‬, a coppersmith by trade.
~The Marginal Mennonite Society Martyrs Series

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Eslanda Goode Robeson

Happy birthday, Eslanda Goode Robeson (Dec. 15, 1895 – Dec. 13, 1965)! Anthropologist. Civil rights activist. Women’s rights activist. Anti-colonialist. Writer. Actor. Harlemite. Wife and business manager of Paul Robeson. Blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York.
~The Marginal Mennonite Society Heroes Series.

Vida Dutton Scudder

Happy birthday, Vida Dutton Scudder (Dec. 15, 1861 – Oct. 9, 1954)! ‪#‎Episcopalian‬. ‪#‎Socialist‬. Social Gospel activist. Educator. Writer. Longtime literatu…re professor at Wellesley College. Later in life she became a pacifist, joining the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 1923. From 1919 until her death, Vida was in a committed relationship with fellow writer Florence Converse. They shared a house together in Wellesley, Massachusetts, at 45 Leighton Road, and are both buried in the Newton Cemetery, Newton, Massachusetts.
~The Marginal Mennonite Society Heroes Series.