Summary
In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth century's most surprising and accomplished advocates for women's rights. As Norgren shows, Lockwood was fearless in confronting the ma... Full description
Series: Trailblazer biography
Ordinary genius: the story of Albert Einstein
Maria von Trapp: beyond the Sound of Music
Woody Guthrie: America's folksinger
Ernest Shackleton: gripped by the Antarctic
Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance genius
Blind Boone: piano prodigy
Wilbur & Orville Wright: taking flight
Roberto Clemente: baseball's humanitarian hero
Victoria Woodhull: fearless feminist
Marshall 'Major' Taylor: world champion bicyclist, 1899-1901
Belva Lockwood: equal rights pioneer
Maggie L. Walker: pioneering banker and community leader