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June 19, 2023

Young and Restless The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions [Audiobook]

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Free Download Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ1BJTJ7 | 2023 | 9 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Mattie Kahn
Narrator: Eunice Wong
The untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls. Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was fifteen. In 1912, women’s rights activists organized a massive march in support of women’s suffrage. Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement, but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better-known movements for workers’ rights began, over 1,500 girls-some as young as ten-walked out of factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nation’s first-ever labor strikes.

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