PDF The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma (Topics in Contemporary Buddhism) by Guillaume Rozenberg in History

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In 1938; a black newspaper in Houston paid front-page tribute to Thyra J. Edwards as the embodiment of “The Spirit of Aframerican Womanhood.” Edwards was a world lecturer; journalist; social worker; labor organizer; women’s rights advocate; and civil rights activist—an undeniably important figure in the social struggles of the first half of the twentieth century. She experienced international prominence throughout much of her life; from the early 1930s to her death in 1953; but has received little attention from historians in years since. Gregg Andrews’s Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle is the first book-length biographical study of this remarkable; historically significant woman.