Table of Contents Lupe Anguiano Helps the Poor Find Jobs 4 Ella Baker Works Behind the Scenes for Civil Rights Frank Bowe Works to Help Americans with Disabilities 8 Jacqueline Ceballos Fights for Women's Liberation 10 Claudette Colvin Takes a stand by staying Seated 12 Charles Hamilton Houston Defeats Jim Crow 14 Callie House works to Help Former Slaves 16 Helen Hunt Jackson sees the struggles of American Indians 18 Fred Korematsu Defies Japanese American Internment 20 Felicitas Mendez Helps End Segregation in California 22 Inez Milholland Works Tirelessly for Women's Rights 24 Bayard Rustin Organizes the March on Washington 26 Fact Sheet 28 Glossary 30 For More Information 31 Index 32 About the
Lupe Anguiano Helps the Poor Find Jobs Lupe Anguiano knew the struggles became a nun in the Roman Catholic of Mexican workers well Growing Church As a nun she wanted to up in the 1930s her family faced help the poor Poor people and those struggles firsthand Each May minorities faced many problems they left their home in Colorado for One big problem in 1963 was racial California They worked the crops discrimination in housing Anguiano there picking fruits and vegetables fought hard against laws that would In December they returned to make it easier for landlords to Colorado It was hard work and it discriminate But at the time nuns were not supposed to be social meant Anguiano missed a lot of school But she still managed to graduate from high school activists She continued her work even though church leadership told her to stop In 1949 when she In 1964 Anguiano decided to leave was 20 years old Anguiano the church and give up her work as a A migrant family on the road in California all
Unsung Heroes Of Social Justice
From disability services advocates to civil rights march organizers, this book introduces individuals whose contributions were overlooked.
About This Book
By: Todd Kortemeier
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Published by: 12-Story Library provided by Amicus, part of The Creative Company
