Social Activists
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All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis
$19.99 Read moreAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.
In 2015, increasing numbers of re
- Author: Sachs, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1954276095
- 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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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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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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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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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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A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till
$18.99 Read moreThe 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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Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times
$26.99 Read moreIn 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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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
$27.99 Add to cartTwo 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
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Firebrands: Activists You Didn’t Learn about in School
$15.95 Add to cart- Series: Real Heroes
- Author: Justseeds
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1648413447
- Language: English
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A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy
$27.95 Add to cartWHEN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD RON KOVIC enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1964, he couldn’t foresee that he would return from Vietnam paralyzed and in a wheelchair for life. His best-selling 197
- Author: Kovic, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141668
- Language: English
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The Portable Anna Julia Cooper
$21.00 Add to cartA collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women’s intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Live… [more below]
- Author: Moody-Turner, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0143135066
- Language: English
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Alabama V. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
$21.99 Read more“A story for the ages.” —New York Times
The defense lawyer for Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, the Selma marchers and other civil rights heroes reveals the true story of the historic trial that m- Author: Abrams, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449590
- Language: English
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Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care
$29.95 Read moreHave you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades?
Questions of care, intimacy, education,- Author: Segal, Lynne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 180429294X
- Language: English
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Alabama V. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
$28.99 Read more“Poignant, sometimes harrowing.” –Wall Street Journal
The defense lawyer for Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, the Selma marchers, and other civil rights heroes reveals the true story of the histori… [more below]
- Author: Abrams, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1335475192
- Language: English
