Jessie Street

Lady Jessie Mary Grey Street (* 1889 in Ranchi, Jharkhand, † 1970) was an Australian feminist and writer.

Biography

After education at private schools in England, she studied at the University of Sydney. When she was in 1920 secretary of the National Council of Women ( National Council of Woman), she sat down at the same time as early activist for the League of Nations was founded in January 1920. After a period as President of the Feminist Club was founded in 1929 president of the United Association of Woman, an umbrella organization of the feminist movement in New South Wales.

In the elections to the Australian House of Representatives in 1943 and 1946, she ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Australian Labor Party. Between 1945 and 1946 she was the only female delegates at the conference in San Francisco, which drew up the Charter of the United Nations. Later she worked closely with Faith Bandler who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Source

• " Chambers Biographical Dictionary ", Edinburgh 2002, pp. 1066, ISBN 0-550-10051-2

• Feminist
• Australian
• Born in 1889
• Died in 1970
• Woman