Moving the Mountain: Women Working for Social Change / Edition 1

by Ellen Cantarow, Susan Gushee O?Malley, Sharon Hartman Strom, Sharon H. Strom, Susan G. O'Malley

Overview

Florence Luscomb campaigned for suffrage early in the century and worked for social change. Ella Baker was a civil rights organizer for over fifty years. Jessie Lopez De La Cruz, a lifelong farmworker, was the first woman to organize in the fields for the United Farmworkers. These vivid oral histories of the lives of these three remarkable political activists document a century of social change movements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780912670614
Publisher:	Feminist Press at CUNY, The
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Series:	Women's Lives - Women's Work Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

Editorial Reviews

"Good background material, rich, and powerful portraits, and . . . interesting reading." — Library Journal

"[An] admirable book, which combines observed profiles with the self-articulated oral histories to give a sense of the melding of public and private lives." — Washington Post Book World

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