num_pages: 544
description: Karenna Gore Schiff’s nationally bestselling narrative tells the fascinating stories of nine influential women, who each in her own way, tackled inequity and advocated change throughout the turbulent twentieth century. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who was born a slave and fought against lynching; Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who organized coal miners and campaigned against child labor; Alice Hamilton, who pushed for regulation of industrial toxins; Frances Perkins, who developed key New Deal legislation; Virginia Durr, who fought the poll tax and segregation; Septima Clark, who helped to register black voters; Dolores Huerta, who organized farm workers; Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, an activist for reproductive rights; and Gretchen Buchenholz, one of the nation’s leading child advocates. Gore Schiff delivers an intimate and accessible account of the nine trail-blazing women who deserve not only to be honored but to have their example serve as beacons.
language: English
title: Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America
titlecomplete: Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America
genres: Historical, History, Feminism, Womens, American History, Social Justice, Leadership, Womens Studies, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 120
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Miramax