reformers

Chronicles the life of social reformer Dorothea Dix, providing information on her strict upbringing, her years as a teacher, her work as a Civil War nurse, and her efforts as a lobbyist in Congress.

Recounts Dorothea Dix's lifelong fight to improve the lives of others, such as her own family, the mentally ill, prisoners, the physically ill, and the retarded.

Text and accompanying photographs present a profile of eight women who were active in reforming the United States' political system.

A biography of the nineteenth-century reformer who devoted much of her life to improving the treatment of the mentally ill in the United States.

Presents a short biography on former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth and chronicles her early life on a Dutch plantation in New York and her fight for emancipation and equal rights for all African Americans and women.

Follows the life of the former slave who gained renown as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about sixty-eight men and women who were influential in bringing about social change in countries throughout the world; and features profiles of seven organizations also engaged in the struggle. Includes timelines, sidebars, documents, photographs, and sources.

Presents the profiles of twelve individuals in the U.S. who have started community action initiatives without resources or much political or organizational background, and discusses how ordinary citizens have found creative solutions for overcoming antagonistic interests.

Describes the life of the anti-slavery and women's rights activist, from her beginnings in slavery to her tireless campaign for the rights and welfare of the freedmen.

After being forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Roger Williams travels south and, with the help of the Narragansett Indians, founds Providence, Rhode Island.