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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
An authoritative portrait of the radical pacifist and activist includes coverage of her early suffrage demonstrations, conversion to orthodox Catholicism, imprisonment for her Vietnam War protests and recognition by Pope Francis I.
Author
Publisher
Andscape
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The basketball icon—a two-time NCAA champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, four-time WNBA champion and WNBA MVP—and advocate for prosecutorial changes shares her journey for justice as she stepped away from her career in women’s basketball to help free an innocent man—her now husband—from a wrongful conviction.
11) Sojourner Truth
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Society of sirens volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When she must wed due to a stipulation in her inheritance, Cornelia, an activist painter of radicals and harlots who wants to fund the cause of women’s rights, is forced to reveal a secret—she’s already wed to a man she hasn’t seen for 20 years.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Although he started out without aspirations to be an activist or politician, Harvey Milk found himself captivated by the history-making movements of the 1960s. He would eventually make history of his own by becoming the first openly gay elected politician in California.
Author
Publisher
Disney Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of Sojourner Truth, discussing her childhood as a slave, the purchase of her freedom by a Quaker couple, and her subsequent work as an advocate and lecturer for the abolitionist movement.
Author
Publisher
Crown, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today.
Author
Language
English
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • The riveting history of how Pauli Murray—a brilliant writer-turned-activist—and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America.
“A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt.” —Essence
In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old...
“A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt.” —Essence
In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old...
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