Acknowledgments Introduction Subject Lists William Apess Sara Josephine Baker Smedley Butler George Washington Cable Tunis Campbell Luisa Capetillo Edward Coles Anna Julia Cooper Angie Debo John Lovejoy Elliott Elizabeth Freeman Laura Haviland Thomas Hazard Lugenia Hope Myles Horton Jovita Idar Florence Kelley Thomas Kennedy Susette La Flesche Lucy Laney Benjamin Lay Belva Lockwood Seth Luther Vito Marcantonio Tanya Nash Mary Ovington Jeannette Rankin John Rock Ernestine Rose Rose Schneiderman Tye Leung Schulze David Walker George White Carola Woerishoffer Minoru Yasui
...will be a valuable addition to academic, public, and high school libraries interested in building their resources on some of the unsung heroes of American history. Reference Books Bulletin
ROBIN KADISON BERSON is Director of the Upper School Library of Riverdale Country School in New York City. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at New York University, where she received a Masters of Arts degree in history. She holds a Master of Science degree from Columbia University School of Library Service. She has taught secondary school history in a variety of settings, and spent seven years as Managing Editor of History of Education Quarterly.
"A bold and candid look at those who have dared break company with
the conventional, the traditional, and stand for values and causes
only later embraced by the rest of us, who have learned to be far
more cautious, if not fearful--a book about heroism, really: its
many aspects."-Robert Coles Harvard University
"Robin Berson has rounded up dozens of dissenters, mavericks, and
reformers from mostly obscure sources to give us this immensely
readable collection of profiles. Her book will help many to live
better lives than they thought possible."-Milton Meltzer
Award-winning author of over 70 books on social reform
?Berson has added breadth and depth to the underdeveloped corpus of
biography on American reformers.?-Wilson Library Bulletin
?Marching to a Different Drummer will be a valuable addition to
academic, public, and high school libraries interested in building
their resources on some of the unsung heroes of American
history.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
?This collection of brief studies of 35 individuals demonstrates
how heroes and heroines come in many sizes--often unrecognized by
themselves and by others--and should be remembered for their
accomplishments. Berson gives brief but full studies of the
individuals, of the social setting, and of the way these "dedicated
deviants," as she calls them, marched to their own drum-beat
through life.?-IBJournal of Popular Culture
?You will probably recognize only a few of the 35 names whose
biographical sketches appear in these pages, but that's the idea.
Berson devotes this interesting volume to the achievements of
persons she calls dedicated deviants. She includes contributors to
such areas as infant care, racism and segregation, sweatshop labor,
and freedom of conscience. It is wholesome for young people to
learn that persons of both sexes, from groups often ignored when
credit is given--persons nobody has heard of--have made important
contributions. Highly Recommended.?-The Book Report
"Berson has added breadth and depth to the underdeveloped corpus of
biography on American reformers."-Wilson Library Bulletin
"Marching to a Different Drummer will be a valuable addition to
academic, public, and high school libraries interested in building
their resources on some of the unsung heroes of American
history."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"This collection of brief studies of 35 individuals demonstrates
how heroes and heroines come in many sizes--often unrecognized by
themselves and by others--and should be remembered for their
accomplishments. Berson gives brief but full studies of the
individuals, of the social setting, and of the way these "dedicated
deviants," as she calls them, marched to their own drum-beat
through life."-IBJournal of Popular Culture
"You will probably recognize only a few of the 35 names whose
biographical sketches appear in these pages, but that's the idea.
Berson devotes this interesting volume to the achievements of
persons she calls dedicated deviants. She includes contributors to
such areas as infant care, racism and segregation, sweatshop labor,
and freedom of conscience. It is wholesome for young people to
learn that persons of both sexes, from groups often ignored when
credit is given--persons nobody has heard of--have made important
contributions. Highly Recommended."-The Book Report
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