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Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of seventeen for speaking out against injustice even when it was terrifying to do so. She was an ordinary Muslim girl who wanted to attend school, and she refused to stop protesting for her rights even after being attacked by a powerful group in Pakistan who wanted women to remain in the shadows. She continues to fight for women's rights and free education for children all over the world"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xvii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable and stirring memoir in the vein of Free Cyntoia, Just Mercy, and The Sum of Us that both inspires and upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer as he was racially profiled during a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced with two life-changing realities: he was a new father, and...
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
291 p., [8] pages of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual equality. History has often depicted her as a gentle Quaker lady and a mother figure, but her outspoken challenges to authority riled ministers, journalists,...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer covers Wells' early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance, and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub., Group
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates interviews Sojourner Truth had with Olive Gilbert and Frances Titus which later became published in two books describing Truth's life as a slave, her escape to freedom, and her fight to end slavery and win rights for women.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
336 pages : 22 b/w illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dissent and protest have been at the heart of the American story from the first days of settlement to the present day. American Patriots highlights many of the ways that dissent has shaped American history and been a force for progress"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship students...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok--a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Aladdin paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
148, [2] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography tells of the early years of the former slave--born Isabella Baumfree around 1797--who became a nationally known advocate for equality and justice, working with such abolitionists as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Activist Belva Lockwood never stopped asking herself the question Are women not worth the same as men? She had big dreams and didn't let anyone stand in her way--not her father, her law school, or even the U.S. Supreme Court. She fought for equality for women in the classroom, in the courtroom, and in politics.