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"In graphic novel format, tells the story of Mary "Mother" Jones, a leading labor union and child labor activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s"--Provided by publisher.

Perhaps the most famous labor activist and union organizer in history, Mary Harris Jones was an Irish emigre who watched her husband and four children die of yellow fever, saw her modest dressmaking shop go up in flames in the Great Chicago Fire and, as a lonely, poor widow in the late 19th century, was facing a bleak future. Then, as she approached old age and became involved in the labor movement, she reinvented herself as "Mother Jones" - a...

In 1903 eight-year-old Aidan, who dreams of going to school instead of working in a cotton mill, finds inspiration in Mother Jones, a labor activist who plans to protest unfair child labor laws by marching from Kensington, Pennsylvania, to Oyster Bay, NewYork.

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