Elizabeth Martínez è una celebrata femminista chicana e organizzatrice comunitaria la cui prolifica scrittura esplora i movimenti sociali nelle Americhe. Il suo lavoro è lodato per il suo instancabile e irrefrenabile impegno nel documentare l'attivismo progressista, offrendo storie viventi vitali di lotte contemporanee. La sua voce distintiva e il suo spirito infaticabile animano un corpo di lavoro che cattura la lotta continua per la giustizia sociale.
Elizabeth Martínez's work comprises one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era ... inimitable ... irrepressible ... indefatigable. -Angela Y. Davis
A boy suspects his mother is a witch (and isn't entirely wrong) in this wonderfully irreverent, humorous rhyming story with Quentin Blake-esque illustrations
Letters from Mississippi gives us a deeply personal look at one of the Civil Rights Movement's key moments--and reminds us that change happens because regular people have decided they were willing to fight for it.---Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund This expanded edition includes over forty pages of poetry by students in the Freedom Schools of 1964, adding the lively voices of local participants, mostly teenagers, to those of the volunteers from the North. The new edition also includes an additional dozen biographies, resulting in a wider resource for scholarship and for a general understanding of this critical moment in civil rights history