Presents the lives and achievements of six women--Sarah and Angelina Grimk?, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone--whose activities to earn rights for women took great courage as they faced ridicule and scorn.
One winter John Thompson skis across the Sierra Nevada Mountains and creates a path upon which mail and people may travel, thus earning his nickname "Snowshoe Thompson.".
A biography of the American poet, activist for humane causes, and friend to immigrants, who authored the noble words now inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
Text and accompanying photographs bring us a vision of the past, chronicling in detail the events and personalities that contributed toward making America what it is today.