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Book Synopsis101 profiles of social justice leaders that changed the world, made accessible for younger students.
Trade ReviewThough this populous gallery of radicals includes the usual suspects like Susan B. Anthony, César Chávez, and Malcolm X, it focuses far more on lesser-known figures active in the abolition of slavery; the labor union and environmental movements; and the struggles to equalize civil rights for African Americans, women, immigrants, and the LGBT community. Each of the chronologically arranged entries includes a large picture, a brief account of experiences or achievements, a biographical time line, study questions, and enhancement activities that range from suggested readings to write your own jailhouse letter.” Dubbing Frederick Douglass a freedom fighter and Albert Parsons a martyr” of the Haymarket riot, the language betrays a leftist slantas do some of the questions: Can you think of other times in history when the government has used patriotism to drum up support for war?” Still, these introductions to Studs Terkel (the world’s greatest listener”), Fred Korematsu, Tecumseh, Francis Perkins, Bob Dylan, transgender activist Sylvia Rae Rivera, and others will give even well-read students a new angle on our country’s history. Booklist
Table of Contents101 Real Change Makers 1. Tecumseh 2. Oscoela 3. Red Cloud 4. Crazy Horse 5. Nathan Bacon 6. Daniel Shays 7. Grimke Sisters 8. Susan B. Anthony/Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Lucretia Mott 9. David Walker (early Black abolitionist) 10. Denmark Vesey (planned a slave rebellion) 11. Nat Turner 12. Henry Highland Garnet (Black abolitionist, organized black troops) 13. Frederick Douglass 14. Harriet Tubman 15. John Brown 16. WEB DuBois 17. Queen Liliuokalani 18. Mark Twain 19. August Spies 20. Albert and Lucy Parsons 21. Mary Elizabeth Lease, populist 22. Ida B. Wells 23. Margaret Sanger 24. Upton Sinclair 25. Clarence Darrow 26. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 27. Helen Keller 28. Eugene Debs 29. Big Bill Haywood 30. Joe Hill 31. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones 32. Hulet Wells (Seattle 1919) 33. Hubert Harrison 34. Paul Robeson 35. Harry Bridges 36. The Dunne Bros. 37. Genora Dollinger 38. Angelo Herndon 39. Emma Goldman 40. A. Philip Randolph 41. John L. Lewis 42. Langston Hughes 43. Richard Wright 44. Harry Hay 45. Del Martin/Phyllis Lyon/Barbara Gittings (Daughters of Bilitis) 46. Jeanette Rankin (1st woman in Congress, founding member of Women’s Int’l League for Peace and Freedom) 47. Fred Korematsu (Japanese American who refused to report to internment camp; Korematsu vs. United States) 48. Henry A. Wallace 49. Cesar Chavez 50. Dorothy Height, National Council of Negro Women 51. Claudette Colvin 52. Rosa Parks 53. Bayard Rustin 54. Melba Beals and the Little Rock 9 55. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 56. Malcolm X 57. Ella Baker 58. Fannie Lou Hamer 59. Stokely Carmichael 60. Diane Nash 61. John Lewis 62. Angela Davis 63. Huey Newton 64. Shirley Chisolm 65. Muhammad Ali 66. Leonard Peltier 67. Dennis Banks/AIM 68. Philip and Daniel Berrigan 69. Billie Jean King 70. Ralph Nader 71. Rachel Carson 72. Howard Zinn 73. Dolores Huerta 74. Edward Said 75. June Jordan 76. Harvey Milk 77. Winona LaDuke 78. Jesse Jackson 79. Cleve Jones 80. Laila Al-Arian 81. Noam Chomsky 82. Ryan White 83. Constance McMillen 84. COLAGE members (or affiliated with) who testified on behalf of their gay parents’ right to marry 85. Elvira Arellano and son Saul Arellano Other possibilities – more writers, academics, artists 1. Bessie Smith 2. Gertrude Stein 3. Audre Lorde 4. John Reed 5. Jacob Lawrence 6. Ben Shahn 7. Clifford Odets 8. August Wilson 9. Lorraine Hansberry 10. Orson Wells 11. Marlon Brando 12. Bob Dylan 13. Betty Friedan 14. Gloria Steinem 15. Susan Brownmiller 16. Martina Navratilova 17. Gloria Anzaldua 18. Barbara Smith 19. James Baldwin 20. Tony Kushner 21. Larry Kramer (ACT UP) 22. Eqbal Ahmad 23. Daniel Ellsberg 24. Ralph Johns – Son of Syrian immigrants, Greensboro NC store owner during the sit-ins, supportive of black students 25. Frances Perkins
