![]() ![]() (Penguin Random House) Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History presents the histories of politicians, athletes, explorers, sportspeople and spies. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History is an outstanding book. These women fought purposefully to achieve within a wide variety or professions, sports or cultural pursuits, causes and understandings. ![]() ![]() It presents necessary information about people, situations and settings about which we need to know. Furthermore, Angela Davis’s campaign against racism led her to be put on the FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list and lose her UCLA teaching job.īookwagon is astounded by this book. For example, in the case of Maya Angelou, we learn that the abuse she faced at eight years old, led her to stop speaking for five years. However, even those who are better known are researched and profiled thoroughly, so that we realise fully, their achievements and obstacles. While many are lesser known, including Mary Prince, the first selected, an abolitionist who campaigned to abolish slavery across the British Empire, there are others, like Shirley Bassey, who are household names. Forty brave, inspiring women feature in Vashti Harrison’s superb Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History. ![]()
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