Profiles in humanity
the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights
Cohen, Warren I.
creator
ProQuest (Firm)
text
bibliography
biography
Electronic books.
mdu
Lanham, Md
Rowman & Littlefield
c2009
2009
monographic
eng
xvii, 262 p. : ill.
Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Vaclav 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.
Warren I. Cohen.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Political activists
Biography
Civil rights workers
Biography
Human rights workers
Biography
Pacifists
Biography
Religious leaders
Biography
History, Modern
20th century
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