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Black Foremothers
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DOROTHY STERLING is the author of more than 30 books, including We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. Her award-winning books pioneered culturally diverse subjects for children's nonfiction.

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Black Foremothers

Three Lives (Second Edition)
Dorothy Sterling

Foreword by Margaret Walker. Introduction by Barbara Christian.

Three heroic women whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, "every woman, man, and child should know": Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B. Wells, the firebrand journalist whose crusade against lynching awakened the consciousness of a nation; and Mary Church Terrell, a gifted and untiring leader in the movement for suffrage, civil rights, and world peace. Through painstaking research, Sterling not only produces a fascinating account of three outstanding leaders; she also documents the role hitherto "faceless, nameless millions of African-American women" have played in shaping our culture and history. Reflecting and connecting the historical struggle of the years 1826 through 1954, Black Foremothers will captivate and inspire readers, young and old.

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