But it was a great labor of love to learn more about them. People often ask me, how did you pick these hundred people . One of the great one of the things the was the most fun about the book was reading about these hundred people. I recently analyst to a 250 people. I contacted friends and others that did not know out of the blue from historians, journalists, like our first, and ask them for their recommendations of people. And then made a point of trying to identify people, some of the more famous and many of whom were not well known. There are three kinds of people in the book and the three categories of people. One group of them are organizers and activists, people like eugene debs and the socialist party, the early 1900s. People like alice paul, the great suffrage leader it was probably more responsible than anyone else for women getting the right to vote and a leader of the Womens Suffrage Movement in the early 1900s. She was also an advocate of civil disobedience. She and others
Book tv at booktv. Org. Up next, peter dreier, politics professor at Occidental College profiles the collections of americans a champion social and political reform, including w. E. Dubois, gloria steinem, and billy jean king. This event from busboys and poets in washington, d. C. , is just over an hour. Hello, everybody. Thank you for coming. Dont shoot too loud. I appreciate being invited to busboys and poets. They have heard a lot about it over the years. It is great to be here. I have been going around the country talking about my book. I was surprised about a week and half ago when this guy named barack obama stole my scene. You probably remember in the inaugural speech a week and a half ago he talked about the lessons we need to learn, the important milestones from seneca falls and selma and stonewall. Milestones of the womens Rights Movement and the civil Rights Movement and the gay Rights Movement. And that was a great a great speech for reminding us how important it is that we
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