Moving the Mountain: Women Working for Social Change

by Ellen Cantarow, Susan Gushee O'Malley, Sharon Hartman Strom, et al.

Book Overview

These vivid oral histories of the lives of three remarkable political activists document a century of social change movements. Florence Luscomb campaigned for suffrage early in the century and went to work in the labor, peace, and contemporary women's movement. Ella Baker was a civil rights organizer for over fifty years. Jessie Lopez De La Cruz, a lifelong farmworker, was the first woman to organize in the fields for the United Farmworkers.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912670614
• ISBN13: 9780912670614
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Women working for social change

I thought that this book was one of a kind! I loved it I used it for a report on Ellen Barker for a Human Relations class and it was exackly what i was looking for!