Great lives
Subtitle: human rights
By: William Jay Jacobs
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780684190365
Subjects: Human rights; Reformers
Description: Biographical portraits of twenty-nine individuals who fought for human rights, from Roger Williams and Thomas Paine to Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 267-270.
Table of contents: title: Anne Hutchinson.; title: Roger Williams.; title: John Peter Zenger.; title: Thomas Paine.; title: Benjamin Franklin.; title: Sarah Moore Grimke.; title: Angelina Emily Grimke.; title: Dorothea Dix.; title: Frederick Douglass.; title: Harriet Beecher Stowe.; title: William Lloyd Garrison.; title: Elizabeth Cady Stanton.; title: Thaddeus Stevens.; title: Sojourner Truth.; title: Booker T. Washington.; title: Chief Joseph.; title: Clara Barton.; title: Susan B. Anthony.; title: Andrew Carnegie.; title: Samuel Gompers.; title: Jane Addams.; title: Williams Jennings Bryan.; title: Emma Goldman.; title: Jacob Riis.; title: Clarence Darrow.; title: Dorothy Day.; title: Bayard Rustin.; title: Cesar Chavez.; title: Eleanor Roosevelt.; title: Martin Luther King, Jr.