Profiles in humanity : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights /
Cohen, Warren I.
Profiles in humanity : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / Warren I. Cohen. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009. - xvii, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index.
Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav 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.
9780742567016 (cloth : alk. paper) 074256701X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780742567030 (electronic) 0742567036 (electronic)
2009002249
Political activists--Biography.
Civil rights workers--Biography.
Human rights workers--Biography.
Pacifists--Biography.
Religious leaders--Biography.
History, Modern--20th century.
JZ5540 / .C64 2009
323.092/2
Profiles in humanity : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / Warren I. Cohen. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009. - xvii, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index.
Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav 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.
9780742567016 (cloth : alk. paper) 074256701X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780742567030 (electronic) 0742567036 (electronic)
2009002249
Political activists--Biography.
Civil rights workers--Biography.
Human rights workers--Biography.
Pacifists--Biography.
Religious leaders--Biography.
History, Modern--20th century.
JZ5540 / .C64 2009
323.092/2