Cover Image

Demanding justice : a story about Mary Ann Shadd Cary /

Show other versions (1)

Describes the life of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, nineteenth-century educator, writer, newspaper editor, and civil rights worker who was the first African-American woman to enter law school or to publish a newspaper.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferris, Jeri
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Smith, Kimanne (Illustrator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2003]
Series:Creative minds biography.
Subjects:
Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, > 1823-1893 > Juvenile literature.
African American women civil rights workers > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century > Juvenile literature.
Free African Americans > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Newspaper editors > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Educators > Canada > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, > 1823-1893.
Educators.
Civil rights workers.
African Americans > Biography.
Women > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Growing up
  • Saying what she thinks
  • Canada
  • A terrible year
  • A newspaper of her own
  • Change and more change
  • A different world, a new life.