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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Berson, Robin Kadison. Marching to a different drummer. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994 (OCoLC)625165332 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robin Kadison Berson |
| ISBN: | 031328802X 9780313288029 |
| OCLC Number: | 29635580 |
| Description: | xxii, 341 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Robin Kadison Berson. |
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Abstract:
Contains brief biographies on United States social reformers. Contains indexes that list reformers according to specific reform movement ("major focus"), chronology (18th-20th centuries), gender and ethnicity.
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