If you are in or around Brooklyn try and check out this mural that has been dedicated to women and activism. Titled "When Women Pursue Justice," the mural depicts several activist women throughout history.

Shirley Chisholm, the seven-term Congresswoman who represented the neighborhood from 1969 through 1983, is the star of the scene. The woman who ran for president in 1972 is shown riding a bright-orange horse and waving a banner that reads "A Catalyst for Change."

The mural includes Emma Goldman, the anarchist labor and birth control advocate who was deported to Russia in 1919. There's also Clara Lemlich, an organizer of Lower East Side garment workers in the early 20th century, and anti-slavery and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth. Others on the wall are drawn from more recent history and include Dorothy Day, who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement in the 1930s, and poet Audre Lorde, poet and author of the famous dictum, "Your silence will not protect you."

Living women include Angela Davis, who emerged as a prominent activist in the 1960s and ran for vice president on the Communist ticket. There's also Dolores Huerta, leader of the United Farm Workers, and Amy Goodman, whose "Democracy Now!" program on Pacifica Radio has for a decade covered left-wing politics. There's also Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan, whose anti-Iraq war activism took center stage last summer when she created Camp Casey near Crawford, Texas.

Weissman the director of the mural project says she sees this as not just an opportunity to remember and value the contributions of these women, but to remind us of how much work remains to be done on women's rights. "So many of the women depicted have been forgotten. We hope the mural will bring them back to their proper place in history."

For more info you can check out this exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library.

via eWomen'sNews.