Social Activists
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My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
$9.99 Add to cartPerfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, debut author Willie Mae Brown crafts an unforgettable memoir about growing up amidst the civil rights movement in a town at the crossroads
- Author: Brown, Willie Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1250848016
- Language: English
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You Are a Star, Martin Luther King, Jr.
$8.99 Add to cartMake way for Martin Luther King, Jr.!
It’s Martin Luther King, Jr., like you’ve never seen him before!
Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Rob
- Author: Robbins, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1338895109
- Language: English
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Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop
$32.00 Add to cartA political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics–from The Beat Generation to B… [more below]
- Author: Zamalin, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0807045187
- Language: English
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Can You Imagine?: The Art and Life of Yoko Ono
$19.99 Add to cartA stunning picture book biography in lyrical, poignant prose about Yoko Ono–a brilliant musician and one of the creative minds behind the iconic song “Imagine” by John Lennon.
Yoko Ono has been calle- Author: Tolin, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1534487786
- Language: English
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Hate Won’t Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It
$30.00 Add to cartIn this urgent expansion of her viral speech, Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow details her unlikely journey into politics with a front-row seat to democracy at its breaking point—then outlines the t… [more below]
- Author: McMorrow, Mallory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0306835401
- Language: English
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights
- Author: Reid, Joy-Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 006306880X
- Language: English
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How We Heal: A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing, and Community Transformation from the Inside Out
$29.95 Add to cartIn How We Heal, La June Montgomery Tabron, President and CEO of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, makes a powerful case for hope through racial healing.
From a vivid portrait of her childhood in 1960s Det
- Author: Montgomery Tabron, La June
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1633311015
- Language: English
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To Rob a Bank Is an Honor
$22.00 Add to cartFor the first time in English, the autobiography of the revolutionary outlaw who brought Citibank to its knees.
In 1981, Lucio Urtubia received a suitcase full of cash from Citibank executives, handed
- Author: Urturbia, Lucio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1849355789
- Language: English
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Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher
$19.99 Add to cartAcclaimed civil rights icon, Ruby Bridges, shares the touching tale of reuniting with the first-grade teacher who changed her life, Mrs. Henry.
Once again, you have shown me that you never get too old
- Author: Bridges, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1338753940
- Language: English
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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
$18.00 Add to cartPart memoir, part history, part journalistic expos , Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century’s most innovative novelists–The Electric Kool… [more below]
- Author: Lin, Tao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1101974516
- Language: English
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Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
$16.99 Read moreFrederick Douglass knew where he was born but not when. He knew his grandmother but not his father. And as a young child, there were other questions, such as Why am I a slave? Answers to those questio… [more below]
- Author: Keller, Shana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1534110011
- Language: English
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Call Me Jeanne: From Outhouse to the White House: A Journey of Family, Loss and the Power of Love
$16.99 Add to cartCall Me Jeanne: From Outhouse to the White House
A Journey of Family, Loss and the Power of Love
Born in the heart of the Great Depression, Jeanne Cahill’s life began on a small South Georgia farm, wher
- Author: Cahill, Jeanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1964271223
- Language: English
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John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community
$24.00 Add to cartThe first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis
A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection “The perfect book, at the right time.”–Michael Henry Adams, The Guardian F- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Arsenault, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281811
- Language: English
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Find Your Fight: Make Your Voice Heard for the Causes That Matter Most
$28.00 Add to cartA practical and empowering guide for activists and advocates on how to speak out, spark controversy, and fight for what matters most!
Before you can become an effective activist or trusted ally, you
- Author: Ruderman, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1963827074
- Language: English
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Out of Sight: An Undercover Investigator’s Fight for Animal Rights and Her Own Survival
$32.99 Add to cartOut of Sight is both an investigative deep dive into the meat industry’s treatment of farm animals, and a story of resilience and, ultimately, professional and personal triumph.
This insightful and- Author: Eisnitz, Gail A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1510782338
- Language: English
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Sonita: My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartNearly 15 million girls, including many in the U.S., are forced into marriage each year. Each of these girls has a price tag—and a story. Sonita Alizada was almost sold twice. Her price tag was $9,00
- Author: Alizada, Sonita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 006343900X
- Language: English
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Resist!: Peaceful Acts That Changed Our World
$9.99 Add to cartWith protests sweeping the nation and the world, young readers will be inspired by these accounts of activists who refused to be ignored.
“This book is right on time.”–Nikki Grimes, Children’s Litera- Author: Stanley, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0823460762
- Language: English
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Radical Tenderness: The Value of Vulnerability in an Often Unkind World
$29.00 Add to cartAn inspiring manifesto from philanthropist and advocate Gisele Barreto Fetterman that explores her surprising source of power and strength–vulnerability–and how we can all harness it to effect meani… [more below]
- Author: Barreto Fetterman, Gisele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593852885
- Language: English
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Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice
$19.95 Add to cart“Essential reading, filled with exactly the kind of truth that this precarious moment demands.” –Kaira Jewel Lingo, author of We Were Made for These Times
In 1999, Abby Reyes lost her partner, Terenc- Author: Reyes, Abby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1623175216
- Language: English
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Grace Lee Boggs: Gardens of Hope
$18.99 Add to cartGrace Lee Boggs brought gardens to inner cities and planted seeds of hope and activism in the minds of young people.
When Grace Lee Boggs was eight years old, her teacher gave her a copy of The Secre- Author: Daemicke, Songju Ma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0807530123
- Language: English
