Social Activists

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537697Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 2097Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588384751Author Steve FifferFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth BooksWeight(grams) 140g

At the turn of the twentieth century, few white, southern leaders would speak out in favor of racial equality for fear of being dismissed as too progressive. Willis Duke Weatherford (1875-1970), however, defied convention as one of the first prominent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036869Author Roberta GratzFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 380g

Martin Luther King Jr.: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works allows the reader to explore not just the facets of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s career but the network of associates across the Civil Rights Movement that enabled him to move forward with his...

Bringing together leading scholars of social movements and protest, this volume offers an up-to-date overview of several of the key ethnic and racial movements in the contemporary United States. The organizations, strategies, and challenges of the Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062860972Author Jose Antonio VargasFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

John C. Campbell (1867-1919) is widely considered to be a pioneer in the objective study of the complex world of Appalachian mountaineers. Thanks to a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation, Campbell traveled throughout the region with his wife - noted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064077Author JustseedsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506473598Author D.L. MayfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 146g

The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed on Freedom brings into focus two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their...

From the Dalai Lama to Harvey Milk, Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Martin Luther King Jr., Liberty Legends Alphabet marches through history in search of those who fought for their freedoms and others’, and changed the world for good. Boldly illustrated, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774711309Author James H MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Nimbus Publishing LimitedPublisher Nimbus Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852987Author Monique Misenga Ngoie MukunaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP Academic

Rebel Without a Pause is the autobiography of Winnipeg s best-known and most persistent political activist, Nick Ternette. For over forty years, Nick was one of the loudest voices of the left, who ran for mayor multiple times and never shied away from...

Cecily McMillan didn't come from much: she had a hardscrabble life bouncing between the members of a broken family scattered from Texas to Atlanta. Her relationship with her parents became increasingly strained, and at sixteen she was legally emancipated...

This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Chris Hani, Wangari Maathai, Josie Mpama/Palmer, and Ken Saro-Wiwa. The volume complements history, social justice, and political science courses and is a useful collection for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613321874Author Robert ShetterlyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint New Village PressPublisher New Village PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517904456Author Josie R JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353502Author Kadour NaimiFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Persecuted for his political activism, Emmanuel Mbolela left the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002. His search for a new home would take six years. In that time, Mbolela endured corrupt customs officials, duplicitous smugglers, Saharan...

This remarkable biography features a white American pacifist minister whose tireless work for justice and human rights helped reshape Black civil rights in the U.S. and Africa. George M. Houser (1916-2015) was one of the most important civil rights and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835274Author Craig CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobs's ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton Jane Jacobs's First City vividly reveals how this influential thinker and writer's classic works germinated in the once...

This powerful memoir weaves the stories of valiant women who survived the Rwandan genocide with the struggle of their champion, Karen Sherman, to recover from her own history of abuse. The strength of these women helped Karen find her own way-through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533514Author John StaufferFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 213g

A courageous, moving, and powerful memoir from a renowned feminist activist, Heroes in My Head is the incredible untold story of Judy Rebick's struggle with depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder.In this riveting memoir, renowned feminist Judy...

Vicente Lombardo Toledano was the founder of numerous labour union organisations in Mexico and Latin America between the 1920s and the 1960s. He was not only an organiser but also a broker between the unions, the government, and business leaders—an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212356Author George LakeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Poet and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus recorded a series of tapes in the 1970s which have been edited and annotated by Bernth Lindfors to give valuable insights into Brutus's life and works. Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) is known internationally...

In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson's Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they...

Biography of a civil rights activist who worked tirelessly at the heart of two social and political revolutions A native Alabamian, Reverend Robert E. Hughes worked full-time in the civil rights movement as executive director of the Alabama Council of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250772909Author Edward SnowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732709652Author Peter YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Warcry CommunicationsPublisher Warcry CommunicationsWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881803872Author Scott MacMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

“In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked their lives to save others out of a sense of shared...

A powerful biography that presents analysis of a black working-class woman who rose from a tenement slum in intensely racialized British Guiana to become a leading anti-colonialism, workers’ rights and women’s liberation activist in Britain. Jessica...

Robert “Bicycle Bob” Silverman achieved the impossible with his small but loyal band of followers in Le Monde a Bicyclette (MàB), together with a few allies. Over three decades. Montreal was transformed from one of the least bicycle-friendly cities in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639733538Author Amanda JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773861340Author Pete MaloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin Press