Elsie Fox

On Mothers Day Of 2006 Ninety-Eight-Year-Old Elsie Fox Stepped Up To A Microphone At A Park In Bozeman Montana And Called For People To Wake Up Remember Act And Make A Difference. Spanning A Century This Biography Of Feisty Elsie Fox Tells The Story Of A Woman Who Made Activism Her Life.Born On A Remote Eastern Montana Ranch Elsie Was Nurtured By A Strong Desire To Be Self-Reliant At A Time When Women Were Expected To Be Good Housewives. She Came Of Age In The Rip-Roaring Decade Of The Twenties And Witnessed The Depression In Seattle That Led Her To Discover Marxism And A Like-Minded Husband. The Road Led To San Francisco The International Longshoreman And Warehouse Union Where She Worked For Twenty-Eight Years. Elsie Spent Wwii Fighting For Her Husbands Release From A Prisoner Of War Camp In The United States Where He Was Being Held As An Illegal German Alien. With Photos Included Elsie Fox Paints A Vivid Picture Of A Woman Who Fights For What She Believes. She Asks If We Dont Take Action When There Are Problems In The World Then What Are We?