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Series
Theodore Boone volume 4
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone takes the stand to protect his political and environmental freedoms in the fourth installment of the series"--
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Historian Berry resurrects the forgotten life of courageous pioneering activist Callie House (1861-1928), ex-slave, widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five who, seventy years before the civil rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. House was born into slavery in 1861 and sought African-American pensions based on those offered Union soldiers, targeting taxes on seized rebel cotton (over $1.2 billion in 2005 dollars) and...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 536 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on exclusive interviews, a journalist and former State Department speechwriter sheds new light on Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who inspired Burma's first steps towards democracy, and her lifelong fight for liberty.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Deputy sheriff Tom Bridger and veterinarian Rachel Goddard investigate the suspicious deaths of Cam and Meredith Taylor, two long-time social activists who ran Mason County's failing newspaper. The case becomes even more complicated when both Tom and Rachel discover that they have personal ties to the case.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home to Tupac and Assata, and a powerful incubator for today's activism, scholarship, and artistry"--
For over fifty years, the Shakurs have inspired generations of activists, scholars, and music fans. Whether founding one of the most notorious Black Panther chapters in...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero brings Cleaver's controversial story into focus through his own words. This books charts Cleaver's life through his writings: his quiet childhood, his youth spent in prison, his startling emergence as a Black Panther leader who became a "fugitive from justice" by the end of 1968, his seven-year...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xvi, 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi known to the world as an icon for democracy and nonviolent dissent in oppressed Burma, and to her followers as simply "The Lady" has recently returned to international headlines. Now, this major new biography offers essential reading at a moment when Burma, after decades of stagnation, is once again in flux. Suu Kyi's remarkable life begins with that of her father, Aung San. The architect of Burma's independence,...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Writing from the barren confines of his death row cell, Mumia Abu-Jamal provides a remarkable testament about the Black Panther Party...an amazing book that illuminates the truth of what his membership in the Party was about, and reveals the extreme price extracted from him for having learned, and for now telling the truth."
-Kathleen Cleaver, from the Introduction
Mumia Abu Jamal, America's most famous political prisoner, is internationally known...
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. While so many institutions claim to value diversity...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xxxi, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Burmese activist minister and non-violence advocate describes the factors that contributed to her house arrest in 1989, her work to promote non-aggressive civil resistance, and her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting who pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders and launched the singular grassroots March for Our Lives movement. Emma González called BS. David Hogg called out Adult America. The uprising had begun. Cameron Kasky immediately recruited a colorful band of theatre kids and rising activists and brought them together...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Modern presidents face resistance from a split nation. Political Resistance in the Current Age covers movements that resisted recent presidential administrations from George W. Bush to Donald Trump, what inspired the movements, and the change they brought about" --
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
After relocating to Milwaukee for a professorship, Melissa Pennyworth and her copyright lawyer husband Rep become involved in investigating the ties between the murder of Wisconsin political activist Ole Lindstrom and the mugging of his Naval Academy son in Annapolis on the eve of the 2008 Army-Navy football game.
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the chairman of the radical Black Power organization the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, focusing on his harassment by law enforcement.
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