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Author:

Cohen, Warren I.

Title:

Profiles in humanity : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / Warren I. Cohen.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xvii, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Political activists--Biography.
Civil rights workers--Biography.
Human rights workers--Biography.
Pacifists--Biography.
Religious leaders--Biography.
History, Modern--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index.

Contents:

Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav Havel and the power of the powerless -- Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy -- Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women -- Muslim feminists -- Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality -- Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid -- Nelson Mandela : grace in victory -- Holocaust rescuers -- Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe -- Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China -- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state -- Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.

ISBN:

0742567036 (electronic)
9780742567030 (electronic)
074256701X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780742567016 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)300030648

LCCN:

2009002249

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)