Organizing America stories of Americans who fought for justice
"An account of the impact of organizers on United States history"-- Provided by publisher.
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New York :
The New Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Benjamin Lay : the first anti-slavery crusader
- Lydia Maria Child : not all white suffragists
- Maggie Walker : using the tools of the master
- Ida B. Wells : intersectionality pioneer
- Eugene Debs : the American path to socialism
- Clara Lemlich : a revolutionary life
- Frank Little : the martyr
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn : a rebel life
- Myles Horton : organizing the South for justice
- Lucy Randolph Mason : to win these rights
- Clint Jencks : El Palomino
- Mike Quill : the power of a union
- Robert Williams : organizing through armed self-defense
- Ella Baker : give people light and they will find their own way
- Bob Moses : the organizer of Mississippi
- Yuri Kochiyama : the late-life organizer
- Daniel Berrigan : the power of religious example
- Barbara Gittings : the mother of the gay civil rights movement
- Richard Oakes : the fight for indigenous justice
- Dolores Huerta : a living legend
- Conclusion.
