Elsie Fox: Portrait of An Activist - Softcover

Stevenson, Karen; Fox, Elise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595518567 ISBN 13: 9780595518562

Publisher: iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

On Mother's Day of 2006, ninety-eight-year-old Elsie Fox stepped up to a microphone at a park in Bozeman, Montana, and called for people to wake up, remember, act, and make a difference. Spanning a century, this biography of feisty Elsie Fox tells the story of a woman who made activism her life.Born on a remote Eastern Montana ranch, Elsie was nurtured by a strong desire to be self-reliant at a time when women were expected to be good housewives. She came of age in the rip-roaring decade of the twenties and witnessed the Depression in Seattle that led her to discover Marxism and a like-minded husband. The road led to San Francisco, the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union where she worked for twenty-eight years. Elsie spent WWII fighting for her husband's release from a Prisoner of War camp in the United States where he was being held as an illegal German alien. With photos included, Elsie Fox paints a vivid picture of a woman who fights for what she believes. She asks, "If we don't take action when there are problems in the world, then what are we?"

About this title

About the Author

Karen Stevenson wrote the script and performed a living history presentation of Montana pioneer photographer, Evelyn Cameron. Stevenson has written for the Miles City Star, Billings Gazette, and Montana Magazine and taught in a one-room schoolhouse. She lives in rural Miles City, Montana, with her husband. They have raised three children.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595518567
• ISBN 13: 9780595518562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252