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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Vashti Harrison
(Penguin Random House)
£7.99
Forty brave, inspiring women feature in Vashti Harrison’s superb Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History. While many are lesser known, including Mary Prince, the first selected, an abolitionist who campaigned to abolish slavery across the British Empire, there are others, like Shirley Bassey, who are household names.
However, even those who are better known are researched and profiled thoroughly, so that we realise fully, their achievements and obstacles. For example, in the case of Maya Angelou, we learn that the abuse she faced at eight years old, led her to stop speaking for five years. Furthermore, Angela Davis’s campaign against racism led her to be put on the FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list and lose her UCLA teaching job.
Bookwagon is astounded by this book. It presents necessary information about people, situations and settings about which we need to know. These women fought purposefully to achieve within a wide variety or professions, sports or cultural pursuits, causes and understandings. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History is an outstanding book.
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Vashti Harrison
(Penguin Random House)
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