Alice Lee Jemison

Alice Mae Lee Jemison was a Seneca political activist and journalist. She was a major critic of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the New Deal policies of its commissioner John Collier. She lobbied in support of California, Cherokee, and Sioux peoples during her career, supported by the Seneca Tribal Council. The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration condemned her work, and critics described her harshly in press conferences and before Congressional committees. For a time, she was put under FBI surveillance. ^{Alice Lee Jemison, Seneca political activist and journalist (d. 1964)}

9 October 1901

Born on the same birth day (9 October): Brian Blessed • Brian Lamb • Douglas Kirby • George Kittle • Juan Dixon • Kevin Kampl • Léopold Sédar Senghor • Maria Filotti • Reginald Dyer • Robert Wuhl • Vernon Fox • William Alexander (author)

Born in the same month (October 1901): Adelaide Hall • Alberto Giacometti • Arleigh Burke • Eileen Shanahan • Eivind Groven • Emma Gamboa Alvarado • Enrique Jardiel Poncela • Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus • Frank Boucher • Frank Churchill • Gilda Gray • Jean Grémillon • John Alton • Mark Oliphant • Masanobu Tsuji • Roy Fox