Profiles in humanity : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / Warren I. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Warren I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political activists--Biography.

Political activists.

Civil rights workers--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

Human rights workers--Biography.

Human rights workers.

Pacifists--Biography.

Pacifists.

Religious leaders--Biography.

Religious leaders.

History, Modern--20th century.

History, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This compelling book tells the inspirational stories of men and women who fought for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights throughout the twentieth century. Often at great personal risk, they did what they could to alleviate the suffering caused by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao; by racists in America and South Africa; and those who would oppress women everywhere. Tracing the lives of the unsung and the famous, Cohen retraces the lives of such figures as Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Pope John XXIII, Aung San Suu Kyi, Margaret Sanger, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Togethe

Contents:

Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance

Václav Havel and the power of the powerless

Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy

Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women

Muslim feminists

Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality

Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid

Nelson Mandela : grace in victory

Holocaust rescuers

Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism

Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe

Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China

Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state

Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-282-49739-1

9786612497391

0-7425-6703-6

OCLC:

434016837