social reformers

Examines the actions of individuals who did the right thing by breaking the rules, including a brother and sister who distributed antigovernment pamphlets in Nazi Germany, the man who helped develop but also spoke out against the nuclear bomb in Cold War Russia, and others.

Chronicles the efforts of twelve-year-old Craig Kielburger and his human rights organization Free the Children to stop child labor in foreign countries.

Profiles the lives of nine women who worked behind the scenes to impact the events of the twentieth century including early civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells and and Frances Perkins who became the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet.

The autobiography of Sojourner Truth, the nineteenth-century African-American woman who moved from slave labor to preaching and promoting abolition and women's rights; also includes a collection of writings and anecdotes dating from Truth's lifetime.

Introduces the life of a woman who escaped slavery, traveled and made speeches to help free slaves before and during the Civil War, and helped freed slaves to find jobs and houses after the war.

A brief biography of the abolitionist and women's rights activist who spent twenty-eight years of her life as a slave.

A collection of portraits, quotations, and biographical sketches of American political activists, writers, and social reformers.

A biography of a tireless civil rights worker and the United States' leading advocate for children, Marion Wright Edelman.

Tells the story of the founder of the Children's Defense Fund, tracing her life from her modest beginnings in the rural, segregated South to her rise to prominence as an advocate of children's rights.

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.