women revolutionaries

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women revolutionaries

In the time of the Butterflies

2002
Minerva Mirabal and her sisters, known as the Butterflies, become heroes and martyrs for their country as they work to overthrow tyrannical dictator General Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic in the 1950s.

Women Soldiers, Spies, and Patriots of the American Revolution

Series: American Women at War
2004
Contents: Deborah Samson--Nancy Hart--Lydia Darragh--Mercy Otis Warren--Esther DeBerdt Reed--Elizabeth Martin--Sybil Ludington--Margaret Corbin--After the war.

They called her Molly Pitcher

2002
Tells the story of Molly Pitcher, a woman who accompanied her husband when he set off to join the Continental Army at Valley Forge in 1777, and who was given the rank of sergeant by General George Washington for her extraordinary acts of courage during the Battle of Monmouth.

In the time of the butterflies

2010
Gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo.

Afeni Shakur

evolution of a revolutionary
2004
Chronicles the life of Alice Faye Williams, who later became Afeni Shakur, a radicalized, prominent Black Panther, civil rights leader, and mother to rap megastar Tupac Shakur.

Molly Pitcher

heroine of the War for Independence
2006
Presents a short biography of Mary Ludwig, also known as Molly Pitcher, and describes her bravery during the Revolutionary War when she took over her husband's cannon after he was wounded.

Molly Pitcher

2004
Presents the life story of Molly Pitcher, a heroine in the Battle of Monmouth Court House, during the American Revolution.

Jemma7729

2008
Jemma tries to evade capture by the state while leading a revolutionary shadow government and destroying the chemical plants used to change the women they cannot control.

No one to trust

2002
Trained assassin Elena Kyler is on the run from a wealthy, psychopathic control freak who is also the father of her son. She will do whatever it takes to shield her child from his father's obsessive desire to mold the boy in his own ruthless image.

Liberty

the lives and times of six women in revolutionary France
2007
Profiles the lives of six women who helped to shape the outcome of the French Revolution.

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