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Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009

1 online resource (xvii, 262 p.) : ill

ISBN 0742567036 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780742567030 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 074256701X (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780742567016 (cloth : alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index

Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Vaclav Havel and the power of the powerless -- Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy -- Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women -- Muslim feminists -- Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality -- Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid -- Nelson Mandela : grace in victory -- Holocaust rescuers -- Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe -- Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China -- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state -- Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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