Social Activists
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Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine
$45.00 Add to cartReared in Houston (Freedmen’s Town), Texas, Emmett J. Scott was a journalist, newspaper editor, government official, author, and chief of staff, adviser, and ghostwriter to Booker T. Washington. Calle… [more below]
- Series: Afro-Texans
- Author: Dailey, Maceo C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 168283123X
- Language: English
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Helen Keller: Autobiographies & Other Writings (Loa #378): The Story of My Life / The World I Live in / Essays, Speeches, Letters, and Jour Nals
$40.00 Add to cartIn her own words, the legendary American icon who overcame adversity to become a brilliant writer and powerful advocate for the disabled: The Story of My Life, The World I Live In, plus a dozen reveal… [more below]
- Author: Keller, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 653
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537725
- Language: English
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Sister Rebel
$18.95 Add to cartTheresa Bonpane’s memoir Sister Rebel charting her journey from a young Irish American woman, to a Maryknoll sister working in Chile, to a dedicated peace activist and director of the Office of the Am
- Author: Bonpane, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1939096081
- Language: English
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Gordon Cressy Tells Great Stories
$20.99 Add to cartGordon Cressy is a walking, talking civics lesson. His work over the years has been a driving force in making Toronto what it is today – a city that takes top spots globally in livability rankings for
- Author: Cressy, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1771806702
- Language: English
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Brooklyn Goes Home: The Rise and Fall of American Greyhound Racing and the Dog That Inspired a Movement
$19.95 Add to cart2023 Finalist in the American Book Fest Awards
Brooklyn Goes Home is the true story of how one greyhound sparked a movement to close the worst dog tr
Silver Award Winner in the NonFiction Book Awards- Author: Dorchak, Christine A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1590567145
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$18.00 Add to cartBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he w… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106708
- Language: English
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Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me about Recovery, Purpose, and Hope (School Safety, Grief Recovery)
$19.95 Add to cartHow a Parkland Dad and 9/11 Brother Faced Tragedy
“Don’t tell me there’s no such thing as gun violence. It happened in Parkland.” ―Fred Guttenberg
2020 Nautilus Silver Winner
2021 Chanticleer Heart- Author: Guttenberg, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1642505358
- Language: English
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Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
$24.95 Add to cartDeeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness
working-class militancy and jump st- Author: Melrod, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639656
- Language: English
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Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World
$12.00 Read moreIn the 1960s and ’70s, class struggle surged in U.S. industrial cities. Many leftists joined these struggles by going to work in the nation’s factories; among them was Noel Ignatiev. He labored in dif… [more below]
- Author: Ignatiev, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860003
- Language: English
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The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
$32.95 Add to cart“Soulful, achingly honest . . . A potent addition to the literature on drug addiction and recovery.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred)
While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, Da
- Author: Poses, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1954861990
- Language: English
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Vida y Hacienda: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos
$35.00 Add to cartVIDA Y HACIENDA: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF DR. PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS is the first biography of the renowned revolutionary leader from Puerto Rico to be written in English. It offers the general history det
- Author: Muniz, Andre Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: August 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0578292750
- Language: English
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Bear Boy: The True Story of a Boy, Two Bears, and the Fight to Be Free
$14.99 Add to cartBear Boy is a true-life coming-of-age story of two bears who inspire one boy to stand up for animals, question authority and discover the power of activism.
“This is a book that will encourage you to f
- Author: Barker, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1736084321
- Language: English
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Wired Differently – 30 Neurodivergent People You Should Know
$21.95 Read moreThis collection of illustrated portraits celebrates the lives of influential neurodivergent figures who have achieved amazing things in recent times.
Showcasing these 30 incredible people, the extraor- Author: Wells, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1787758427
- Language: English
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The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy
$14.99 Read moreWith determination and audacity, Josephine Baker used her comic and musical abilities to become a worldwide icon of the Jazz Age. This lively biography covers her outspoken participation in the U.S. C… [more below]
- Series: Women of Action
- Author: Caravantes, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1613738323
- Language: English
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
$36.00 Add to cartThe incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
Haben grew up spending summers with her family i… [more below]- Author: Girma, Haben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1538728729
- Language: English
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Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth
$34.95 Add to cartA vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power
The first volume of Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes- Author: Shetterly, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1613321635
- Language: English
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Historically Black: American Icons Who Attended Hbcus
$26.00 Read moreA vibrant collection of biographies and illustrated portraits that capture the brilliance of more than thirty American icons, Historically Black is a celebration of Black excellence in fields ranging … [more below]
- Author: Vereen, Alonzo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0762480327
- Language: English
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Standing: One Man’s Odyssey During the Turbulent ’60s
$28.00 Read moreThis memoir of one man’s coming-of-age through the Civil Rights movement follows his childhood innocence of white supremacy during the 50’s to his awakening as a full-time organizer in the deep south,… [more below]
- Author: McMillan, M. Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052099
- Language: English
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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
$20.99 Add to cartWinner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island p
- Author: Boochani, Behrouz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1487006837
- Language: English
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No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno
$39.95 Add to cart- Author: Allison, Charlie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887440323
- Language: English
