Meet Mary Pleasant, Mother of Civil Rights in California

DescriptionMEET MARY PLEASANT is a one-hour unique ‘performance documentary,’ a colorful look at the unsung and daring 19th-century African-American activist/entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant, now called ‘The Mother of Civil Rights in CA.’ Pleasant was a 19th-century Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks combined, and she changed modern day civil rights law. This colorful [...]

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

ISBN13: 9780807855737 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionWhen Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to [...]