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Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm
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A portrait of America's first woman cabinet member describes how Frances Perkins worked to create new safety laws in the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and how her bold vision of inclusivity helped create the Social Security program.
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 DVD (57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Profiles Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and the first woman appointed to a presidential cabinet, who became involved in many aspects of the New Deal.
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Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Describes the life and accomplishments of the founder of Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago, where she provided aid to immigrant families and whose legacy is still evident today.
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2014.
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xxiv, 401 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Describes the adventures of two sisters who tried to overcome the male-dominated social norms of the late nineteenth century and achieved a remarkable list of firsts, including the first woman-run brokerage house and the first woman to run for president.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
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448 pages ; 23 cm
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The first full authoritative biography of Dorothy Day, American icon, radical pacifist, Catholic convert, and activist whom Pope Francis I compared to Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. After a middle-class Republican childhood and a few years as a Communist sympathizer, Dorothy Day converted to Catholicism and became an anomaly in American life for almost fifty years. As an orthodox Catholic, political radical, and a rebel who courted controversy,...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
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306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman's...
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Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
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136 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Margaret Sanger was the founder of the birth control movement in the United States and became an international leader in the field. This book examines the life of Margaret Sanger, who championed the right of women to have access to birth control, often enduring arrest and persecution for her views.
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Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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A biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, the most socially and politically active--and controversial--First Lady America had ever seen. Ambassador, activist, and champion of civil rights, Eleanor Roosevelt changed the soul of America forever. Includes selected quotes from Eleanor's own writings.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
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352 pages cm
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"Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty challenges ideas of plaster saints and of saintly women. Day is an unusual candidate for sainthood. Before her conversion, she lived what she called a “disorderly life,” during which she had an abortion and then gave birth to a child out of wedlock. After her conversion, she was both an obedient servant and a rigorous challenger of the Church. She was a prolific writer whose books are still in print...
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Activist Belva Lockwood never stopped asking herself the question Are women not worth the same as men? She had big dreams and didn't let anyone stand in her way--not her father, her law school, or even the U.S. Supreme Court. She fought for equality for women in the classroom, in the courtroom, and in politics.
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"All her life, Eleanor Roosevelt hoped to "leave some mark upon the world." She was a shy child who found joy in helping others. A passionate young adult who longed for adventure. An independent young woman who formed her own opinions. A trustworthy partner who worked tirelessly for change. So when her husband became president and she became first lady, Eleanor was ready to make her mark. With characteristic candor, compassion, and courage, she...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"An autobiography about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his life growing up in New York, becoming the basketball star he's known to be, and getting involved in the world around him as an activist for social change"--
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"Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, was one of the most important leaders in the anti-slavery movement. Before she fought for freedom and changed American history, she was a young enslaved girl who wanted a better life for herself and for all Black people. She overcame many incredible challenges as she bravely stood up for equality and justice."--
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
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597 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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"A brilliant physician and writer, Rush was known as the "American Hippocrates" for pioneering national healthcare and revolutionizing treatment of mental illness and addiction. Yet medicine is only part of his legacy. Dr. Rush was both a progressive thorn in the side of the American political establishment-a vocal opponent of slavery, capital punishment, and prejudice by race, religion or gender-and close friends with its most prominent leaders....
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Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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xii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Inez Milholland was the most glamorous suffragist of the 1910s and a fearless crusader for women?s rights. Moving in radical circles, she agitated for social change in the prewar years, and she epitomized the independent New Woman of the time. Her death at age 30 while stumping for suffrage in California in 1916 made her the sole martyr of the American suffrage movement. Her death helped inspire two years of militant protests by the National Woman?s...
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