Profiles in humanity the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights

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

Author/creator	Cohen, Warren I.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield,
Description	xvii, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Political activists--Biography. Civil rights workers--Biography. Human rights workers--Biography. Pacifists--Biography. Religious leaders--Biography. History, Modern--20th century.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2009002249
ISBN	9780742567016 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	074256701X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780742567030 (electronic)
ISBN	0742567036 (electronic)

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