Karenna Gore Schiff’s nationally bestselling narrative tells the fascinating
stories of nine influential women, who each in her own way, tackled inequity and
advocated change throughout the turbulent twentieth century.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who was born a slave and fought against lynching;
Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who organized coal miners and campaigned
against child labor; Alice Hamilton, who pushed for regulation of industrial
toxins; Frances Perkins, who developed key New Deal legislation; Virginia Durr,
who fought the poll tax and segregation; Septima Clark, who helped to register
black voters; Dolores Huerta, who organized farm workers; Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias,
an activist for reproductive rights; and Gretchen Buchenholz, one of the
nation’s leading child advocates.
Gore Schiff delivers an intimate and accessible account of the nine
trail-blazing women who deserve not only to be honored but to have their example
serve as beacons.
