Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents (Time for Kids Biographies (Pb))
Simple text and photographs depict the life of the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.
Examines the life of the Mexican American labor organizer who demanded rights for migrant farm workers.
People Who Changed the World: Politics and Social Activism (Ideas, Inventions, and Innovators)
by Grace Jones
Sandra Day O'Connor (Ferguson Career Biographies)
by Jean Kinney Williams and FERGUSON
Ferguson's Career Biographies tell the stories of some of the world's most influential and admired people. This book focuses on Sandra Day O'Connor, looking at his early education and training, the challenges he faced on the job, important mentors and his career achievement.
The Importance of (Importance of)
by Corinne J Naden, Karen D. Povey, E Barter James, and Mona Hill
Mandela (World History Biographies) (National Geographic World History Biographies)
by Ann Kramer
Nelson Mandela comes to life in this portrait of a diplomatic man whose commitment to freedom gained him both the Nobel Peace Prize and Time's Man of the Year honor. The son of a Thembu chief in South Africa, Mandela began his life-long campaign against white colonial rule while a college student. Kramer's eloquent, yet approachable text describes the leader's dedication to nonviolence, his role in the African National Congress and his arrest in 1962 for sabotage and conspiracy. During his 27 ye...
Who? What? Why?: Who is Donald Trump? (Who? What? Why?)
by Julia Adams
A clear, factual and accessible guide to the 45th President of the USA and his time in office.On 8 November 2016, some 130 million people in the USA cast their vote to decide who should become their next President. The candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, had fought a campaign that had divided their country more than any previous election. The resulting Trump presidency would not only affect the citizens of the USA, but billions of people around the world. Aimed at tweens and teens, thi...
Carol Moseley Braun: Politician and Leader (Freedom's Promise)
by Duchess Harris and Tammy Gagne
An easy-to-read biography of the man who was a publisher, inventor, scientist, and one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence.
In her sixth presidential biography for National Geographic, Cheryl Harness illuminates the many sides of Thomas Jefferson: scientist, lawyer, farmer, architect, diplomat, inventor, musician, philosopher, author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, and third president of the United States. Readers meet this extraordinary man of contradictions: a genius who proclaimed that "All men are created equal" and championed the rights of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursui...
Henry Alfred Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his part in negotiating a cease-fire between North and South Vietnam and the subsequent U.S. withdrawal. As national security advisor and secretary of state under President Richard Nixon, and secretary of state for Gerald Ford, Kissinger played a pivotal role in American foreign policy. Born into a Jewish family in Bavaria, Germany, Kissinger moved to New York City in 1938 with his family, fleeing Hitler's regime. He became an...
The reference value of every book in this se ries, of which Civil Rights Leaders is a part, is greatly en hanced by the inclusion of chronologies & further reading li sts & a concise introduction to the general subject of the b ook. '
?Que haces con una voz asi? (What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?)
by Chris Barton
!Ahora disponible en edicion espanol! La congresista Barbara Jordan tenia una voz grande, potente, y segura - !y sabia como usarlo! Aprenda sobre su carrera asombrosa en este libro de cuentos ilustrado que inspira con la biografia de la abogada, profesora, legisladora, y lider de derechos civiles. Aun como nina criandose en el Quinto Distrito de Houston en Texas, Barbara Jordan se destaco por su voz potente, valiente, radiante, clara, fresca, y segura. Era una voz que causaba que la gente se...
A biography of the president of the Palestinian National Authority and winner of the Nobel Prize.