LEADER 03344nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910778197703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-49739-1 010 $a9786612497391 010 $a0-7425-6703-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786705 035 $a(EBL)466795 035 $a(OCoLC)434016837 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000228643 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11185906 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000228643 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10154983 035 $a(PQKB)11717725 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC466795 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL466795 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364382 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL249739 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786705 100 $a20090121d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aProfiles in humanity$b[electronic resource] $ethe battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights /$fWarren I. Cohen 210 $aLanham, Md. $cRowman & Littlefield$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7425-6702-8 311 $a0-7425-6701-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index. 327 $aMahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Va?clav 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. 330 $aThis 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 606 $aPolitical activists$vBiography 606 $aCivil rights workers$vBiography 606 $aHuman rights workers$vBiography 606 $aPacifists$vBiography 606 $aReligious leaders$vBiography 606 $aHistory, Modern$y20th century 615 0$aPolitical activists 615 0$aCivil rights workers 615 0$aHuman rights workers 615 0$aPacifists 615 0$aReligious leaders 615 0$aHistory, Modern 676 $a323.092/2 700 $aCohen$b Warren I$0532376 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778197703321 996 $aProfiles in humanity$93687847 997 $aUNINA