num_pages: 96
description: Mary Ellen Pleasant, the Mother of Civil Rights in California, was a daring 19th-century activist/entrepreneur who affected modern-day civil rights and once amassed joint fortune worth $30,000,000! Yet the truth of her colorful life, until this work, has been obscured. HERITAGE OF POWER unfolds the truth of this amazing life in depth and for the first time, presenting its landmark research engagingly, and using Pleasant's long-lost words. Did you know that there was a Mother of Civil Rights in California; that New Orleans' most famous Voodoo Queen, Marie LaVeau, created a model for social change based on her faith? Do you know what voodoo is and how it relates to civil rights in the New World or African-Diaspora religions or how Mary Pleasant used LaVeau's model to change the lives of African Americans and Women in California to become its "Mother of Civil Rights"? If you did not know these things or if you just want to know more, if you want to be inspired by a story of courage or to demystify two mysterious lives and one mysterious religion, you must read HERITAGE OF POWER!!
language: English
title: Heritage of Power
titlecomplete: Heritage of Power (Marie LaVeau/Mary Ellen Pleasant)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: M E P Pubns