If Perkins was unafraid, Mother Jones was fearless, leading labor conflicts in an age when violent confrontations were commonplace. "Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children" is a children's book about the fight against child labor at the turn of the century.

Mother Jones and the March
of the Mill Children
by Penny Colman
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"Rosie the Riveter" is a history, at the junior high school level, of women working on the home front during World War II. Again, rich illustrations and simple text serve to highlight these dramatic changes in women's work. In a short period of time, over 6 million women gained entry to jobs previously closed to them, such as welder.

Rosie the Riveter : Women Working on the Home Front in World War II
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At the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, all the speeches were delivered by men. The women sat behind them on stage and massed in front on the Mall. But despite their absence from centerstage and the positions of power, women were the backbone of the civil rights movement.

Zita Allen's new book, "Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement," covers not only the best known giants of the movement like Rosa Parks, Ella Baker, Constance Baker Motley and, of course, Fannie Lou Hamer. She also highlights local leadership like NAACP Arkansas Chapter head Daisy Bates, who was a leader in the Little Rock High School desegregation struggle, and Women's Political Council Chair Jo Ann Robinson, who was central in coordinating the Montgomery bus boycott.

Allen also brings in representatives of the thousands of rank-and-file women who ran the mimeo machines, distributed the leaflets, demonstrated in the streets and housed the out-of-town cadres, often at risk of their jobs, homes and even lives. They also pressured the ministers and local black leadership to support the ever more militant and confrontational tactics of the mass movement.

Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement (African-American Experience)
by Zita Allen
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A social history of American workers' struggle for safety, shorter hours, and the end of child labor. Readers will be caught by the fierce personality of this brave woman, so ahead of her time, who dared to stand up to presidents and financiers for the rights of ordinary people. It's a story of amazing courage and determination; it's also about failure, again and again, as strikes failed, workers died, and conditions seemed never to improve.

Mother Jones : Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights
by Judith Pinkerton Josephson
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