Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (965 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1401352189 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ida B. These women recognized our country wasn't living up to its promise and fought to alter it.The women she's selected are as varied as they are inspirational. In this highly readable, illuminating narrative that spans the twentieth century, Karenna Gore Schiff tells the remarkable stories of nine influential women who each in her own way tackled inequity and advocated a change. wells-Barnett, who was born a slave and fought against lynching; Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who organized coal miners and campaigned against child labor; Alice Hamilton, who pushed for regulation of industrial toxins; Frances Perkins, who established our social secruity program; Virginia Durr, a high society Southern belle who fought the poll tax and segregation; Septima Clark, who helped to register black voters; Dolores Huerta, who organized farm workers; Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, an activist for reproductive rights; and Gretchen Buchenholz, currently one of the nation's leading child advocates.Karenna Gore Schiff delivers an intimate and accessible account of the nine trail-blazing women who deserve not only to be honored but to have their example serve as a guiding light for activists and leaders of tomorrow.
Interesting Read :-> Little Miss Cutey This is a great book written by Karenna Gore Schiff (Al Gore's daughter) who wrote this after her father was defeated in 2000 because she was now disheartened by politics and wanted to write about people who really made politics about public service. She writes about 9 very different women who affected America in very different ways. Among them, there is Alice Hamilton (first woman on the faculty of Harvard and also a famo. Chicken Soup for the apathetic soul AKPorter This book is a poignant reminder that service on the individual level, when rooted in the fundamental principles of democracy and equality, can affect change on a broad scale. Anyone looking to be inspired by lives that truly made a difference will enjoy it. Very well-written and impressively researched.. Extraordinary women Constant Reader Karenna Gore Schiff has done us a wonderful service with this book of women whose impact on American life has been profound. Her essays on the lives and contributions of these women are readable and enlightening. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know them.
All rights reserved. Schiff also illuminates less renowned but highly influential figures, including Alice Hamilton (1869–1970) a physician and pioneer in calling attention to the dangers of industrial poisons, and Septima Poinsette Clark (1898–1987), child of a former slave, who became a teacher and tireless advocate for racial equality. Schiff has done excellent research, and though her prose isn't especially stylish, she shows her heroines as fully rounded figures. Several of the subjects are still alive, like Dolores Huerta, cofounder with César Chávez of the United Farm Workers, and Gretchen Buchenholz, who established the Association to Benefit Children. The more celebrated are Ida B. 1837–1930), an Irish immigrant and lifelong crusader for workers' rights; and Frances Perkins (1882&n