Profiles in humanity
Subtitle: the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights
By: Warren I. Cohen.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780742567016; 9780742567030
Subjects: Political activists -- Biography; Civil rights workers -- Biography; Human rights workers -- Biography; Pacifists -- Biography; Religious leaders -- Biography; History, Modern -- 20th century
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance; title: Václav Havel and the power of the powerless; title: Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy; title: Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women; title: Muslim feminists; title: Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-LDF; title: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality; title: Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid; title: Nelson Mandela : grace in victory; title: Holocaust rescuers; title: Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism; title: Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe; title: Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China; title: Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state; title: Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.