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A.J. Muste: portrait of a twentieth-century pacifist -- Zora Neale Hurston: folklorist and storyteller -- Jimmie Rodgers: the singing brakeman -- Ma Rainey: mother of the blues -- William Lewis Paul: Tlingit advocate -- Marshall Keeble: an African-American evangelist faces prejudice -- Elaine Goodale Eastman: author and Indian reformer -- Dennis Chavez: the last of the patrones -- Frances Perkins: always working for labor -- Meridel Le Sueur: a voice for working-class women -- Gerald L.K. Smith: political activist, candidate, and preacher of hate -- Emma Tenayuca: labor and civil rights organizer of 1930s San Antonio -- Henry S. Aurand: student, teacher, and practitoner of U.S. army logistics -- Oveta Culp Hobby: director of the Wartime Women's Army Corps -- Ernie Pyle: from a "worm's-eye view". |
