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Three heroic women whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, "every woman, man, and child should know": Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B. Wells, the firebrand journalist whose crusade against lynching awakened the consciousness of a nation; and Mary Church Terrell, a gifted and untiring leader in the movement for suffrage, civil rights, and world peace. Through painstaking research, Sterling not only produces a show more fascinating account of three outstanding leaders; she also documents the role hitherto "faceless, nameless millions of African American women" have played in shaping our culture and history. Reflecting and connecting the historical struggle of the years 1826 through 1954,Black Foremothers will captivate and inspire readers, young and old. show lessTags
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Author Dorothy Sterling was born on November 23, 1913 in Manhattan. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1934. In the 1940's, she worked as a researcher for Life magazine, but left in frustration at a system under which women researchers gave material to men, who wrote the articles. Her first book, Sophie and Her Puppies, was show more published in 1951. She wrote more than 35 books for both children and adults throughout her lifetime including Freedom Train (1954), Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls (1958), Black Foremothers: Three Lives (1979) and Close to My Heart (2005). She won numerous awards for her work including the 1976 Carter G. Woodson Book Award for The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction. She died on December 1, 2008 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Black Foremothers: Three Lives
- People/Characters
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Ellen Craft; Mary Church Terrell
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Sexuality and Gender Studies, History
- DDC/MDS
- 973.0496073022 — History & geography History of North America United States United States Ethnic And National Groups Other Groups African Americans African Americans
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- E185.96 .S75 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Biography. Genealogy
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