Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter For Women's Rights

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How is Mother Jones like other individuals you have heard of who have worked hard to defend human rights? In the selection "Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter For Workers Rights" Mother Jones marches to Sagamore Hill to defend the children who worked for the Mills. It states on paragraph 31 "The federal government finally passed a child labor law (part of the Fair Labor Standards Act) in 1938---Thirty-five years after the march of the mill children." Many people like Mother Jones fought hard for other peoples rights. For example Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks. But these are only a few people who worked hard to defend for other peoples rights. Mother Jones is similar to these people because she defended the children who worked

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