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Two Books, Two Courageous Women, Two Chances to Renew Your Faith in the Human Spirit
Fannie Never Flinched
One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights
Two Books, Two Courageous Women, Two Chances to Renew Your Faith in the Human Spirit
Fannie Never Flinched
One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights
New from Abrams Books for Young Readers November 1st
"Fannie Sellins was a labor organizer -- and from all accounts, she was an exceptional one. But she paid with her life."
When immigrant women earning poverty wages in St. Louis sweatshops voted to strike, Fannie Sellins was there. When destitute coal miners dared to unionize in West Virginia, Fannie was there.
When hired gunmen threatened, beat and shot miners walking the picket line in Pennsylvania, Fannie was there. Mine operators would have paid any price to get rid of Fannie. They threatened to kill her, but Fannie refused to go away.
The United Mine Workers Journal called her an "Angel of Mercy," who went into the miners' homes, encouraging their wives and caring for the sick and dying. "Whenever there was a strike, with its inevitable suffering, Mrs. Sellins was found, caring for the women and children through the dark days of the struggle."
Fannie Sellins (1872–1919) lived during the Gilded Age of American Industrialization, when the Carnegies and Morgans wore jewels, and their laborers wore rags. Fannie dreamed that America could achieve its ideals of equality and justice. She sacrificed her life for that dream, dying on the picket line in a hail of bullets.
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Irena's Children: Young Readers Edition
The "Female Oskar Schindler"
From Margaret K. McElderry Books
At long last, the extraordinary and long forgotten story of Irena Sendler—the woman who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II—now adapted for a younger audience.
Irena Sendler was a young Polish woman living in Warsaw during World War II. With guts of steel, Irena crossed the walled Jewish ghetto with babies in toolboxes and coffins, snuck them under overcoats at checkpoints, and slipped them through the dank sewers. Then she convinced her friends and underground resistance network to hide them.
In this heroic tale of survival and selflessness, Tilar Mazzeo and adapter Mary Cronk Farrell share the true story of this bold and brave woman, who risked her life to save innocent children from the horrors of the Holocaust. Buy Now!