| Description |
312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Drawings by Jorge Colombo"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
"We have all suffered together ..." / Mary Kingsbury Kimkhovitch -- "The devastation of homes without number ..." / Lillian Wald -- "I had a point of view of my own ..." / Eleanor Roosevelt -- "It is a permanent revolution, this Catholic Worker Movement ..." / Dorothy Day -- "Here were faces engraved with the very paralysis of despair ..." / Margaret Bourke-White -- "There was no special deference because I was a woman ..." / Frances Perkins -- "Many things we had to leave undone .." / Mary Anderson -- "Did I consider the theatre a weapon? ..." / Hallie Flanagan -- "Tossed together in a strange fellowship of necessity ..." / Anzia Yezierska -- "We had to close our eyes and minds to so much ..." / Ellen Tarry -- "I knew that I was in it to the end ..." / Louise Armstrong -- "The road to Communism was the only road out ..." / Vera Buch Weisbord -- "I never saw anything like the militancy of those farmers ..." / Ella Reeve Bloor -- "In these terrible happenings you cannot be neutral now ..." / Meridel Le Sueur -- "These ten- and eleven-hour days ... burned my conscience ..." / Lucy Randolph Mason -- "People can no longer live on what they are getting ..." / Mary Heaton Vorse. |
| Subject |
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Women -- Political activity -- United States -- Biography.
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Women employees -- United States -- Biography.
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Sternsher, Bernard, 1925-2011
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Sealander, Judith.
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Colombo, Jorge.
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| ISBN |
0929587340 |
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9780929587349 |
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1566632463 (paperback) |
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9781566632461 (paperback) |
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