Showing Heroine of the Titanic: The Real Unsinkable Molly Brown by Elaine Landau

HardCover. Pub Date :2001-04-23 Pages: 144 Language: English Publisher: Clarion Books Margaret (Molly) Brown is best known for her bravery and compassion during the tragic sinking of the Titanic. which catapulted her to international fame virtually overnight. But few people are aware that she was also an outspoken suffragist. a tireless champion of miners' rights. and one of the first women to run for the US Congress. Raised in a working-class Mississippi River town. Margaretwho was never called Molly in her lifetimefollowed her brother to a rough-and-tumble Colorado boomtown at a time when few women dared to settle in the then untamed West. She married a silver miner who eventually struck it rich. and she used her new wealth and social prominence to further her own education and to fight for the rights of others. regardless of their race or religious beliefs. This vivid acc...