Profiles in humanity [electronic resource] : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / Warren I. Cohen.

By: Cohen, Warren IContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009Description: xvii, 262 p. : illISBN: 9780742567030 (electronic bk.); 0742567036 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Political activists -- Biography | Civil rights workers -- Biography | Human rights workers -- Biography | Pacifists -- Biography | Religious leaders -- Biography | History, Modern -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.092/2 LOC classification: JZ5540 | .C64 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index.

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.

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