Demanding justice
Subtitle: a story about Mary Ann Shadd Cary
By: by Jeri Chase Ferris ; illustrated by Kimanne Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Kimanne, ill.
Series: A creative minds biography
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893 -- Juvenile literature.; Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893.; African American women civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.; Free African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Newspaper editors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Educators -- Canada -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Educators.; Civil rights workers.; African Americans -- Biography.; Women -- Biography.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: Describes the life of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, nineteenth-century educator, writer, newspaper editor, and civil rights worker who was the first African-American woman to enter law school or to publish a newspaper.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62) and index.
Table of contents: title: Growing up; title: Saying what she thinks; title: Canada; title: A terrible year; title: A newspaper of her own; title: Change and more change; title: A different world, a new life.