Fight Back and Win
My Thirty-year Fight Against Injustice--and How You Can Win Your Own Battles
Chapter OneTo Conquer, You Must First Conquer Yourself
My Life Lessons
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
-- Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
I was born Gloria Rachel Bloom on July 3, 1941 -- an only child in a working-class home in southwest Philadelphia. My dad, Morris, was a door-to-door salesman with an eighth-grade education. Selling Fuller brushes and photo enlargements, he worked twelve hours a day, six days a week, and rarely had time to spend with me, except on Sundays. We never had a car. We lived modestly in a row house with a view of a stone wall. I always wanted to get beyond the ston ... read full excerpt from Fight Back and Win ebook