Heroes of Black History (America Handbooks, a Time for Kids)

Long Walk to Freedom: Illustrated Children's edition

Our Heroes: How Kids Are Making a Difference (Kids Making a Difference 2014, 3)

Joan Baez (Hispanics of Achievement)

Silence is Not An Option: You can impact the world for change

Thurgood Marshall

Nelson Mandela

Feminist and Abolitionist: The Story of Emilia Casanova (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)

Throughout the years, Gloria Steinem is perhaps the single-most iconic figure associated with women's rights, her name practically synonymous with the word "feminism."

Documenting everything from her boundary-pushing journalistic career to the foundation of Ms. magazine to being awarded the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom, Winifred Conkling's Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life is a meticulously researched YA biography that is sure to satisfy even the most voracious of aspiring glass-ceiling smashers.

Gloria Steinem was no stranger to injustice even from a young age.

Her mother, Ruth, having suffered a nervous breakdown at only 34, spent much of Gloria's childhood in and out of mental health facilities. And when Gloria was only 10 years old, her father divorced her mother and left for California, unable to bear the stress of caring for Ruth any longer.

Gloria never blamed her mother for being unable to hold down a job to support them both after that, but rather blamed society's intrinsic hostility toward women, and working women in particular. This was the spark that lit a fire in her that would burn for decades, and continues to burn brightly today.

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Our Heroes: How Kids Are Making a Difference (Kids Making a Difference 2014, 3)

Janet Wilson, 2014

Joan Baez (Hispanics of Achievement)

Hedda Garza, 1991

Silence is Not An Option: You can impact the world for change

Stuart Lawrence, 2021

Thurgood Marshall

Jill C. Wheeler, 2003

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Emanuel Castro, 2017

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Virginia Sanchez-Korrol, 2013