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Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who was essential in the fight to create child labor laws. Well into her sixties, Mother Jones had finally had enough of children working long hours in dangerous factory jobs, and decided she was going to do something about it. The powerful protests she organized earned her the name "the most dangerous woman in America." And in the Children's Crusade of 1903, she lead one hundred boys and girls on a glorious...
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 92 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Today, we know Dolores Huerta as the cofounder, with Cesar Chavez, of the organization that became the United Farm Workers of America. We know her as a tireless advocate of farmworkers, Mexican American immigrants, women, and LGBTQ populations. Before all that, though, Huerta was a child in the farming community of Stockton, California and a teenager whose teachers underestimated her because she was Chicana. When she became a teacher herself, she...
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