Social Activists
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Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
$22.95 Add to cartFirst published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray’s Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award among other distinctions. Y
- Author: Murray, Pauli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494589
- Language: English
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Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
$17.95 Add to cartAn expert in the field offers a mindfulness-based approach to nonviolent action, demonstrating how nonviolence is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation
Nonviolence was once considere- Author: Haga, Kazu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1946764434
- Language: English
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
$21.00 Add to cartThe first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equa
- Author: Soyinka, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 13, 2007
- ISBN10: 0375755144
- Language: English
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I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment, Community, and Hope
$18.99 Add to cartA “profound and soul-nourishing memoir” (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world.
When- Author: Nyamayaro, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1982113022
- Language: English
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All the Young Men
$18.00 Add to cartA gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis,
- Author: Burks, Ruth Coker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0802157254
- Language: English
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards
Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Valuable . . . [like Mich- Author: Burton, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974355
- Language: English
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Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
$32.00 Read moreThe remarkable story of a couple who came together during the civil rights movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years, overcoming adv… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888452820
- Language: English
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Taking on the Plastics Crisis
$9.99 Add to cart“Taking on the Plastics Crisis delivers straightforward advise for getting involved in the global movement to eliminate single-use plastics.” — Booklist, Starred Review
“Brief yet inspirational, this- Series: Pocket Change Collective
- Author: Testa, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 593223330
- Language: English
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Born on the Fourth of July
$15.95 Read more“Classic and timeless!” —New York Times
“As relevant as ever, this book is an education. Ron is a true American, and his great heart and hard-won wisdom shine through these pages.” –Oliver Stone, fil
- Author: Kovic, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1617754692
- Language: English
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Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
$46.99 Add to cartFrom New Yorker film critic Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard presents a serious-minded and meticulously detailed . . . account of the lifelong artistic journey
- Author: Brody, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0805080155
- Language: English
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No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno
$21.95 Read moreLively, incendiary, and inspiring, No Harmless Power follows the life of Nestor Makhno, who organized a seven-million-strong anarchist polity during the Russian Civil War and developed Platformist ana… [more below]
- Author: Allison, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1629634719
- Language: English
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The Journey of an Old White Dude in the Age of Black Lives Matter: A Primer
$18.95 Add to cartWhether as an individual, business, or organization, we are all somewhere along a developmental continuum relating to issues around race. In The Journey of an Old White Dude in the Age of Black Lives
- Author: Gerdy, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1646639707
- Language: English
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A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till
$18.99 Add to cartThe last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with poignant recollections of Emmett as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for rac… [more below]
- Author: Parker, Wheeler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593134281
- Language: English
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta: A Personal Portrait: 50 Inspiring Stories Never Before Told
$18.95 Read moreMother Teresa’s life sounds like a legend. The Albanian girl who entered an Irish order to go to India as a missionary and became an Angel of the Poor for countless people. She was greatly revered by
- Author: Maasburg, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 16 2015
- ISBN10: 158617827X
- Language: English
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The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
$19.99 Read moreIn late 2006, Saket Soni, an Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coas… [more below]
- Author: Soni, Saket
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1643755757
- Language: English
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Acknowledging Radical Histories
$19.99 Add to cartIn this collection of conversations, Dr. Horne confronts the history of settler colonialism and fighting fascism while giving dazzling insights on Jazz, Claude Barnett, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, a
- Author: Steele, Chris Time
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0717809420
- Language: English
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Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times
$26.99 Add to cartIn 1933, in the shadow of the Great Depression, Dorothy Day started the most prominent Catholic radical movement in United States history, the Catholic Worker Movement, a storied organization with a l
- Author: Mayfield, D. L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1506473598
- Language: English
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Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington
$13.95 Add to cartChosen a Best Children’s Book of the Year by the Bank Street Center!
Voted a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews!
A biography for younger readers about one of the most inf
- Author: Houtman, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 087286765X
- Language: English
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A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
$17.99 Read moreA leading voice in the global climate movement delivers a powerful manifesto and moving memoir about climate justice and how we can–and must–build a livable and inclusive future for all.
Leading clim
- Author: Nakate, Vanessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063269120
- Language: English
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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
$27.99 Read moreTwo unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them
In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and- Author: Cope, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1641604522
- Language: English
