Social Activists
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The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
$19.99 Add to cartThe riveting New York Times bestseller about a young man who built more than 250 schools around the world–and the steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.
Adam Braun began wor- Author: Braun, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1476730636
- Language: English
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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life
$26.95 Add to cartThe gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.
- Author: Kaminsky, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0997003472
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (Loa #68): Narrative of the Life / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times
$42.50 Read moreHenry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader.
Here in this Library of America volume are collecte- Series: Library of America #68
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1126
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0940450798
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$15.95 Add to cartThe basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie!
“A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation.” — Saturday ReviewBorn a … [more below]- Series: African American
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411435
- Language: English
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Stokely: A Life
$21.99 Read moreFrom the author of The Sword and the Shield, this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael offers “an unflinching look at an unflinching man” (Daily Beast).
Stokely Carmich- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0465065589
- Language: English
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Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life
$15.99 Add to cart2023 IPNE Award Finalist, Young Adult
2022 Foreword INDIES Winner, Honorable Mention, Juvenile Nonfiction
Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an Afri
- Author: Kuznick, Simki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1578690765
- Language: English
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Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother
$18.00 Add to cart“An intimate, revealing and sometimes wrenching family memoir of the journalist and social advocate who is now being considered for canonization” (The New York Times), told with illuminating detail by… [more below]
- Author: Hennessy, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1501133977
- Language: English
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An Honorable Heritage: The Pandita Ramabai Story in Her Own Words
$8.00 Add to cart“I had never read anything like this in the religious books of the Hindus.”
After years of searching for something more than the hopeless existence her religion offered to those not born into a high c
- Author: Ramabai, Pandita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1882840283
- Language: English
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Across the Plains in 1884
$18.99 Add to cartIn April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During it, both Henry and Naomi lost their lives and left their seven childre
- Author: Sager, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 9798868942082
- Language: English
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Naked Truth: A Fight Against Racism, Religious Discrimination, and Retaliation in My Federal Government Career
$21.95 Add to cartJean served successfully for eighteen years in various government agencies-until her stellar career came to a screeching halt. Naked Truth is the riveting true story of one woman’s experiences with di… [more below]
- Author: Francis, Ph. D. Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1646639677
- Language: English
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Alabama Crimson Tide: 1967 and the Undercurrents of Integration – The First Five – Before the Season Changed
$34.99 Add to cartAlabama Crimson Tide: 1967 and the Undercurrents of Integration – The First Five – Before the Season Changed
By: Andrew Pernell
Mr.Pernell was born in the basement of the segregated Bessemer General Hos
- Author: Pernell, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: March 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1649572700
- Language: English
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His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
$30.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1984855026
- Language: English
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
$18.99 Add to cart“A vital, inspiring book” (O, The Oprah Magazine)–a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that… [more below]
- Author: Al-Sharif, Manal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1476793034
- Language: English
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The Fondas: Henry, Jane, & Peter–TRIPLE EXPOSURE
$49.99 Add to cartThroughout his forty-five year career, Henry Fonda-a stable, reassuring archetype of the American male-never gave a bad performance. Personal tragedies included five wives (two of whom committed suici
- Series: Blood Moon’s Magnolia House
- Author: Porter, Darwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1936003864
- Language: English
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The Dream Lives On
$15.00 Add to cartDorothy Word, an African American woman dreaming of a hopeful future for her people, advocated for African American scientists, athletes, inventors, and others often not recognized for their contribut… [more below]
- Author: Elias, Jacob W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1666783676
- Language: English
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John Lewis: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$16.99 Read moreFeaturing interviews of civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis at almost every stage of his career, this collection illustrates why Lewis has become a human rights icon and remains an inspir… [more below]
- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Melville House
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1612199623
- Language: English
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Betty Ford: First Lady, Women’s Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Presidents and The Kennedy Detail comes an “insightful and beautifully told look into the life of one of the most public and admired first ladies”… [more below]
- Author: McCubbin Hill, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1501164759
- Language: English
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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
$17.00 Add to cartIn this inspiring memoir–that Jane Fonda raves “will make you braver…want to live your life better and make a difference”–the award-winning playwright and bestselling author of What Looks Like Cra… [more below]
- Author: Cleage, Pearl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1451664702
- Language: English
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White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
$21.99 Add to cartA New Yorker Best Book of the Year 2022
An “electrifying” biography of Walter White, a little-remembered Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put
- Author: Baime, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268744
- Language: English
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Terlingua Teacher: The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.
$22.00 Add to cartThe Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.
A search for a simpler, more rewarding lifestyle brings Trent Jones and his wife Olga to the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas so
- Author: Jones, Trent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0974504831
- Language: English
