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Title: Fire in My Soul by Joan Lester, Coretta Scott King ISBN: 0-7434-0787-3 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Gripping and Inspiring History Of A Political Pioneer
Comment: Fire In My Soul is a fascinating account of how one woman of color experienced and led the nascent Civil Rights, Equal Opportunity, Human Rights and Feminist movements. It is also a powerful insider's look at the personal compromises and trade-offs women, in particular, must make in order to prevail as torch-bearers. Particularly touching is the recounting of Eleanor's childhood where she consistently overrode her intense longing for connection and home with action and organization. This childhood pattern would become the watchword of her life. Also fascinating is the history of her forebears in slavery and her fights at the EEOC. Lester lets us see Eleanor as a whole person, warts and all. It is a fascinating and compelling read and a clear portrayal of what it takes to succeed as a woman in a man's political world. I only wish there were more women like Eleanor to help keep the torch burning!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Woman Lawyer's Tale
Comment: Eleanor Holmes Norton graduated from Yale Law School in 1964, when three percent of the nation's law students were women. Today, in the span of her professional life, that percentage has climbed above 50 percent. Her story is one of the women's movement and its interconnection with the larger civil rights struggle in the sixties and the seventies. Becoming lawyers and using the law as a tool for social change, is what activist women do, and it is a big part of her personal story: living proof that the personal is indeed political. The tremendous increase in the number of women lawyers, in such a short period of time (legal change is usually glacial)should make for other memoirs and biographies from women of Norton's generation. Another very interesting book in this new genre is Judith Richards Hope, Pinstripes and Pearls. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1964.
Rating: 5
Summary: Remembering my past
Comment: Thank you Dr. Holmes and Dr. Lester for this exciting, informative and historical book. I was raised in the South (LA) and experienced many of the conditions described in Fire in My Soul. Remembering my blessings on this journey, I give thanks for all of my past experiences. My parents attempted to sheild me from many of the conditions of the south and in turn I was shielded from much of the history of the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's except for limited TV coverage. Fire in My Soul serves as a personal history lesson for me and is one that I will read more than once. Reading about the personal experiences and the 'inner' workings of the local, state and federal agencies that Dr. Holmes was/is a part of reminded me of many personal experiences in the private sector. Reading Fire in My Soul remeinded me that the absence of compassion for another person is not isolated to any specific location or sector of the nation. Reading the story of one who continues to live her passion for justice offers the encouragement to do what I can where I am for justice.
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Title:Dance With My Father ASIN: B000099J41 Publisher: J-Records Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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Title: Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton ISBN: 0743222245 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 09 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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