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Title:

Top 101 reformers, revolutionaries, activists, and change agents / edited by Nicholas Faulkner.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

210 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social reformers--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Political activists--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Revolutionaries--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Social change--History--Juvenile literature.
Reformers.
Political activists.
Revolutionaries.
Social change--History.
Reformers--Biography.
Political activists--Biography.
Revolutionaries--Biography.
Social change--History.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Jane Addams -- Ai Weiwei -- Muhammad Ali -- Annan Kofi -- Susan B. Anthony -- Ella Baker --Benazir Bhutto -- Simon Bolivar -- Louis D. Brandeis -- David Ross Brower -- John Brown -- Pearl S. Buck -- Rachel Carson -- Jimmy Carter --Cesar Estrado Chavez -- Michael Collins -- Dalai Lama -- Charles Darwin -- Eugene V. Debs -- John Dewey -- Frederick Douglass -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Medgar Wiley Evers -- Henry Ford -- Francis I -- Betty Friedan -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- Galileo -- Indira Gandhi -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Leymah Gbowee -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman --Mikhail Gorbachev -- Albert Gore, Jr. -- Che Guevara -- Johannes Gutenberg -- Abbie Hoffman -- Jesse Jackson -- Thomas Jefferson -- Joan of Arc -- Saint John Paul II -- Tawakkul Karman -- Florence Kelley -- John F. Kennedy -- John Maynard Keynes -- Billie Jean King -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- John Lennon -- John L. Lewis -- Abraham Lincoln -- Liu Xiaobo -- Martin Luther -- Malcolm X -- Nelson Mandela -- Thurgood Marshall -- Harvey Milk -- Michael Moore -- Lucretia Mott -- John Muir -- A. J. Muste -- Ralph Nader -- Barak Obama -- George Orwell -- Rosa L. Parks -- Frances Perkins -- Wendell Phillips -- Homer Plessy -- A. Philip Randolph -- Paul Robeson -- Jackie Robinson -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Bayard Rustin -- Oscar Arias Sanchez -- Margaret Sanger -- Kailash Satyarthi -- Dred Scott -- Pete Seeger -- Upton Sinclair -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lincoln Steffens -- Gloria Steinem -- I. F. Stone -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Blessed Mother Teresa -- Margaret Thatcher -- Norman Thomas -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Desmond Tutu -- William Tyndale -- Voltaire -- Lech Walesa -- William Wallace -- Earl Warren -- George Washington -- Cornel West -- Elie Wiesel -- Malala Yousafzai -- Muhammad Yunus.

Summary:

Contains brief biographies of 101 social reformers, political activists, and revolutionaries.

Series:

People you should know

ISBN:

1680485091
9781680485097

LCCN:

2015050940

Locations:

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)