Marching to a different drummer unrecognized heroes of American history
Title:
Marching to a different drummer unrecognized heroes of American history
Author:
Berson, Robin Kadison.
ISBN:
9780313387845
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 341 p.) : ill.
Contents:
William Apess: Native American rights leader -- Sara Josephine Baker: children's health reformer -- Smedley Darlington Butler: anti-imperialist military reformer -- George Washington Cable: human rights and civil rights advocate -- Tunis G. Campbell: African American community organizer -- Luisa Capetillo: labor organizer, women's rights advocate -- Edward Coles: abolitionist, human rights advocate -- Anna Julia Cooper: educator, women's rights advocate -- Angie Debo: historian, Native American rights activist -- John Lovejoy Elliott: humanist, community organizer -- Elizabeth Freeman: abolitionist -- Laura S. Haviland: abolitionist, educator, human rights advocate -- Thomas Hazard: abolitionist -- Lugenia Burns Hope: community organizer, civil rights activist -- Myles Horton: educator, civil rights and labor rights activist -- Jovita Idar de Juarez: Mexican American rights, women's rights activist -- Florence Kelley: women's and children's rights activist, labor reformer -- Thomas Kennedy: activist for religious freedom -- Susette La Flesche: Native American rights activist -- Lucy Craft Laney: educator, civil rights advocate -- Benjamin Lay: abolitionist, pacifist, penal reform advocate -- Belva Ann Lockwood: women's rights activist -- Seth Luther: labor organizer -- Vito Marcantonio: civil rights and freedom of conscience advocate -- Tanya Zolotoroff Nash: activist for deaf rights -- Mary White Ovington: civil rights activist -- Jeannette Rankin: women's rights activist, pacifist -- John Swett Rock: abolitionist, civil rights activist -- Ernestine Louise Rose: abolitionist, women's rights activist, free-thinker -- Rose Schneiderman: labor organizer -- Tye Leung Schulze: Chinese American community activist -- David Walker: abolitionist -- George Henry White: civil rights and anti-lynching activist -- Carola Woerishoffer: women's and labor rights activist, philanthropist -- Minoru Yasui: civil liberties activist.
Abstract:
These 35 little known heroes and heroines of American history from across the ethnic spectrum have been virtually ignored in traditional history books. Their inspiring, biographical profiles reveal the struggle, in the face of entrenched opposition, for a just, equitable, and humane society. They spoke for racial and social justice, women's rights, safe working conditions, and freedom of conscience and religion. More than half of the profiles are of women, one fourth are of African-Americans, and Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latino and Chicano Americans are also represented. Each profile.
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