Need to Start a Revolution? Ask a Teen Girl

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sixteen-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg transfixed the world in 2019 when she condemned global leaders for their inaction on climate change. She’s one of thousands of teen girls who’ve agitated for social change in the past centuries, from Claudette Colvin who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus to Mabel Ping-Hua Lee who led a march for women’s suffrage. In a new history, writer and editor Mattie Kahn explores how girls have contributed to social and political movements, the qualities they bring to their activism and the dangers they’ve faced in their fights for the greater good. Kahn’s book is “Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions.” Guests: Mattie Kahn, author, "Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions." Kahn is the former culture director at Glamour, where she covered women’s issues and politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.9	Coming up on forum, Greta Toonberg transfixed the world in 2019 when she condemned global leaders for their inaction on climate change.
1:04.5	The 16-year-old environmental activist is one of thousands of teen girls who've agitated for social change.
1:15.6	From Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus, to Mabel Ping-Huali, who led a march for women's suffrage.
1:18.6	These stories and more are covered in Maddie Kahn's new book,
1:21.6	Young and Restless, The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions.
1:25.6	That's next after this news.
1:42.2	This is Forum. I'm Leslie McClureg. I'm in today for Mina Kim.
1:45.2	Girls are especially capable activists,
1:50.2	according to writer and editor Maddie Kahn, even though their efforts are really often very underappreciated.
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