Jessie Street: A Revised Autobiography

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Federation Press, 2004 - 246 páginas
Jessie Street was a key figure in Australian political life for over 50 years. She was the only Australian woman delegate at the founding of the United Nations in 1945; the initiator of the 1967 "Aboriginal" amendment of the Australian Constitution; the colleague of Pablo Picasso on the World Peace Council Executive; and a controversial promoter of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, known as "Red Jessie" to a generation of Australians. She led an extraordinary, vivid life. Her autobiography, written with candour and humour, is a guidebook to the 20th century. From Jessie's early life in the Australian bush, readers join suffragette marches in London; hear civil rights singers in the jazz clubs of New York; visit occupied Egypt, imperial India, outback Australia, Stalin's Moscow; witness the Anschluss and Sudetenland crises in Europe in 1938; and see the destroyed cities of London, Berlin, Leningrad, and Hiroshima after the Second World War. Her life was one dedicated to peace and justice. The daughter-in-law, wife and mother of three Chief Justices, she met and worked with extraordinary figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, Margaret Sanger, Jawaharal Nehru and many others. Her autobiography, first published in 1966, is now reissued, corrected and edited, a sparkling, powerful, bright book that truly reflects Jessie Street's energy, charm and practical humanitarianism.

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Jessie Street at home 1943
135
Jessie Street with team examining Australian sheepskins 1943
146
Jessie Street United Associations of Women colleagues 1943
153
Our great ally A Pacific war A bid for Parliament
154
Delegates to the Womans Charter Conference Sydney 1943
171
Australian delegates to the UN founding conference San Francisco 1945
179
Jessie Street with Dr Bertha Lutz San Francisco 1945
186
Waltzing Matilda
187

International women Votes for women At Waverley House
49
Jessie Kenneth Street with children Belinda Philippa and Roger 1924
61
Seeing the World
71
Charles Lillingston and Jessie Street Switzerland 1930
76
Laurence Street and Nurse Musgrave about 1935
83
The Palais des Nations Geneva 1930
97
Voyaging Depression At home At work Nurses
100
Jessie Street 1938
117
Friends and Enemies
133
Jessie Street in the USSR 1945
205
Vijay Lakshmi Pandit Jessie Street New York 1945
215
Seeing the States London lights Berlin bereaved
217
Officials at the World Peace Council Conference in East Berlin 1952
222
Jessie Street in China in 1958
228
Jessie Street in Australias outback 1957
234
Index
239
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