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Author	Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett, 1945-
Title	Hidden in plain sight : the tragedy of children's rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse.
Publication Info.	Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	342.73 W	IN LIBRARY

Description	xvii, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series	The public square book series
	Public square (Princeton, N.J.)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-348) and index.
Contents	How to think about childhood -- How to think about children's rights -- Boys in slavery and servitude : Frederick Douglass -- Girls at the intersection of age, race and gender : Dred Scott's daughters -- Growing up in state custody : "Tony" and "John G." -- The printer's apprentice : Ben Franklin and youth speech -- Youth in the civil rights movement : John Lewis and Sheyanne Webb -- Old maids and little women : Louisa Alcott and William Cather -- Breaking the prison of disability : Helen Keller and the children of "Greenhaven" -- Hide and survive : Anne Frank and "Liu" -- Children at work : newsboys, entrepreneurs, and "Evelyn" -- Telling the scariest secrets: Maya Angelou and "Jeannie" -- Age and the idea of innocence : "Amal" and Lionel Tate.
Subject	Children's rights -- United States -- History.
	Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
	African American children -- Civil rights -- History.
	Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
Added Title	Tragedy of children's rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate
ISBN	9780691126906 (alk. paper)
	0691126909 (alk. paper)

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