Emma Lazarus, best known for her poem The New Colossus which is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, was active in this cause.
- Zionism
- Women’s rights
- Temperance
- Prison reform
Emma Lazarus, best known for her poem The New Colossus which is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, was active in this cause.
Zionism. Lazarus, who died at the age of 38, used her pen to draw attention to the violence directed toward Jewish people in Russia and Germany in the 1880’s. She worked with the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society in New York City.