A book covering 9 topics with stories of people . Freedom of Speech: Tom Paine, Thomas Erskine, William Lloyd Garrison, Elijah Lovejoy, Wendell Phillips.Freedom of Religion: Roger Williams, Puritans, Anne Hutchinson, William Penn, Thomas Jefferson. Freedom from Slavery: William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Parker, Levi Coffin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln. The Rights of Children: Hans Chritian Andersen, Richard Oastler, Lord Anthony Ashley, Charles Loring Brace, Jane Addams, UNICEF. The Right to Learn: Friedrich Froebel, Johann Pestalozzi, Bronson Alcott, Horace Mann, Domingo Sarmiento, Nicholas Svend Grundtvig, Christen Kold, Yang Chu Yen, Dr. Frank Laubach, The Rights of Women: Elizabeth Cody Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan Anthony, Emma Willard, Mary Lyon, Elizabeth Blackwell, Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Carrie Chappman Catt. The Right of Asylum: The Huguenots, Fridtjof Nansen, Israel. Fair Trial: Magna Carta, Voltaire, John Quincey Adams, Emile Zola. The Declaration of Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt . Very Readable book. I thought the writing style was great for children. My only negative was that he did not always clearly describe the ideas the person put forth.

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