Social Activists
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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
$19.99 Add to cartThe Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson’s life as a rebel–from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting … [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0684873249
- Language: English
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Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism
$16.95 Add to cart“Canada’s best-known voice of dissent.” — CBC
“It’s time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the world.” — CNN
In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surr
- Author: Barlow, Maude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1770416323
- Language: English
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The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
$27.99 Add to cart“Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground that was the site of the largest labor uprising in American history. . . . He unveils a powerful playboo… [more below]
- Author: Keeney, Charles B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1949199851
- Language: English
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The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice
$24.95 Add to cartThey are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, far
- Author: Fiffer, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384756
- Language: English
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Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
$28.95 Add to cartAn activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan … [more below]
- Author: Freeney Harding, Rosemarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358794
- Language: English
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Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism
$26.95 Add to cartIn the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for participat
- Author: Cohen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353280
- Language: English
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Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
$18.99 Read moreBestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice
- Author: Sharpton, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449647
- Language: English
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The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers
$25.99 Add to cartThe story of the people who see beyond the stars–an astronomy book for adults still spellbound by the night sky
Embark on a captivating cosmic journey with The Last Stargazers. This enthralling book t
- Author: Levesque, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1492681075
- Language: English
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A Stranger at My Door: Finding My Humanity on the U.S./Mexico Border
$16.95 Add to cartA Stranger At My Door is a personal odyssey of challenge, failure, and redemption. A man in desperate crisis appears at the doorstep of a family home in the Sonoran desert. Attempts to do the right th
- Author: Bowden, Peg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0989200930
- Language: English
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To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen’s Account of a War Criminal Trial
$15.95 Read moreThe true story of nineteen-year-old Jordana Lebowitz’s time at the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, a man charged with being complicit in the deaths of more than 300,00
- Author: Kacer, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12, 2017
- ISBN10: 1772600407
- Language: English
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A Day I Ain’t Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi
$22.95 Add to cartThe Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have too rarely been celebrated and are, for the most part, for
- Author: Bateman, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820363049
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: Living in Fire
$22.95 Add to cart‘A scrupulous biography’ — Publishers Weekly
‘Fresh, incisive, and uplifting’ — Kirkus ‘If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to read’ — Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Mon- Series: Revolutionary Lives
- Author: Mullen, Bill V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745338534
- Language: English
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The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Women’s Justice
$28.95 Read moreAward-winning historian Antonia Fraser brilliantly portrays a courageous and compassionate woman who refused to be curbed by the personal and political constraints of her time.
Caroline Norton dazzled- Author: Fraser, Antonia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 163936157X
- Language: English
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Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider
$22.00 Add to cartA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward—written by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s pioneers.
At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the origin- Author: Person, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 125083676X
- Language: English
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Terrorized: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and Coming Home
$18.95 Add to cartFred Thelen, a Catholic priest, embarks on a mission to Peru, only to confront a growing terrorist movement that will shatter him.
In his gripping memoir, Terrorized, Thelen recounts his immersion in
- Author: Thelen, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1965278000
- Language: English
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Mayor of the Tenderloin: del Seymour’s Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco
$28.95 Read moreThe unforgettable account of Del Seymour, who overcame 18 years of homelessness and addiction to become one of the most respected advocates in San Francisco
In Mayor of the Tenderloin, journalist Alis- Author: Owings, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020575
- Language: English
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Terrorized: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and Coming Home
$27.95 Add to cartFred Thelen, a Catholic priest, embarks on a mission to Peru, only to confront a growing terrorist movement that will shatter him.
In his gripping memoir, Terrorized, Thelen recounts his immersion in
- Author: Thelen, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302993
- Language: English
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The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine
$18.99 Add to cartA Palestinian-American activist recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada, and how he made a strong commitment to peace in the face of devastating brutality in this moving, candid, an
- Author: Bashir, Yousef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0062917331
- Language: English
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The Love Prison Made and Unmade: My Story
$19.99 Add to cartA Notable Memoir by the New York Times
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With echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an incarc
- Author: Roberts, Ebony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0062876651
- Language: English
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Brother to a Dragonfly
$25.00 Add to cartIn Brother to a Dragonfly, Will D. Campbell writes about his life growing up poor in Amite County, Mississippi, during the 1930s alongside his older brother, Joe. Though they grew up in a close-knit
- Series: Banner Books
- Author: Campbell, Will D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496816307
- Language: English
