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A heartening inspirationThe New York Times the untold story of the people who have helped spark Americas most transformative social movements throughout history teenage girls

Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts Claudette Colvinwas arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery Alabama She was fifteen In 1912 womens rights activists organized a massive march in support of womens suffrage Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel PingHua Lee Half a century before the betterknown movements for workers rights began over 1500 girlssome as young as tenwalked out of factories in Lowell Massachusetts demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nations firstever labor strikes

Young women have been disenfranchised and discounted but the true retelling of major social movements in America reveals their might they have ignited almost every single one

Young and Restless recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution teenage girls From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the womens liberation movement through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate Mattie Kahn uncovers how girls have leveraged their unique strengths from fandom to intimate friendships to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them Their stories illuminate how much we owe to girls throughout the generations what skills young women use to mobilize and find their voices and crucially what we can all stand to learn from them