A biography of Angelina Grimke, a devout Christian who defied her family and her southern roots to champion the cause of abolition in the mid-1830s, becoming the first woman ever to address an American political body, and sowing the seeds of the women's rights movement.
A biography of a determined woman, who was born in Tennessee, educated in Ohio, and lived in Washington, D.C., where she worked to gain equal rights for herself and other African-Americans.
A biography of Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to a U.S. cabinet post and the longest-serving Secretary of Labor in American history, discussing her influence in the social and political history of the twentieth century.
