Melora creager biography of martin luther king

I’ve always loved reading about people.  As a kid, my first stop in the library was usually the biography section.   My school library had only one set of biographies that had perhaps five titles about women.  If I remember correctly, the women who were documented in this series were Eleanor Roosevelt, Maria Mitchell, Juliet Gordon Lowe, Martha Washington, and Helen Keller.  All the other books, the ones about inventors and adventurers and leaders of state, were about men.  Girls of the s and s did not expect more.  We were, after all, going to become mothers, teachers, secretaries, or nurses.  What girl would aspire to a career that might interfere with keeping house and raising children?

Fast forward fifty or so years.  While biographies are still overwhelming about male achievements, there is a conscious effort by (women) writers and publishers to feature pioneering women in the pages of books.  While it still saddens me to see girls staring at assignment sheets that routinely l

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