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African American women political activists African Americans African Americans Civil rights African Americans Politics and government African Americans Social conditions Civil rights movements JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists Political activists United States Women's rightsRichardson, Heather Cox
Summary: "From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy--and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.43709 RICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 320.473 RIC1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.473 RIC
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Social Pol RichardsonGlaude, Eddie S.
Summary: "Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2011, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For argues for the importance of self-cultivation in pursuit of justice as a critical feature of Black politics, what Eddie S. Glaude Jr. calls Black democratic perfectionism. Building on the political scientist Adolph Reed's work on 'Black custodial politics' Glaude critiques our impulse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 323.0420973 GLAStirling, Jasmine
Summary: "Carrie Chapman Catt mobilized people across the nation to dare to question a woman's right to vote"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CATSummary: Take an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics and entertainment and hear the story of how six trailblazing performers--Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier--changed American culture through their films, fashion, music, and politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWRau, Dana Meachen
Summary: "From 1939 to 2021, actress Betty White was one of the most beloved performers in the entertainment industry. She starred in fan-favorite television shows like The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and also blockbuster movies like Toy Story 4 and The Proposal. Over her decades-long career, Betty White won Emmy awards, was named an honorary mayor of Hollywood, earned a star on the Walk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WHILewis, John
Summary: This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEW1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEW
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEWBalis, Andrea
Summary: "A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in U.S. history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As Senator Joe McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down "communists" in the U.S., citizens grew terrified of being accused, so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.9 BALJones, Amy Robin
Summary: A biography of the African-American educator Mary McLeod Bethune, discussing her role in creating opportunities for African-Americans in education and government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BETSummary: This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfolded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CITChin-Lee, Cynthia
Summary: "Introduces the reader to women's right to vote"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 CHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CHIHope, Bradley
Summary: "A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operative and his high-stakes attempt to change the world. In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.092 HOPKelly, Kate
Summary: "We are all living through modern constitutional history in the making, and Ordinary Equality helps teach about the past, present, and future of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) through the lives of bold fearless women. Based on author Kate Kelly's acclaimed podcast of the same name, Ordinary Equality recounts a story a century in the making-about how constitutional equality for women and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 KELAlko, Selina
Summary: Presents quotes on civil rights from important and influential figures, including Queen Lili'uokalani, John Lewis, Nina Simone, and Barack Obama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 ALKLake, Theia
Summary: "Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the civil rights movement transformed American and world history. In this educational text, readers will come to understand the significance of King's leadership and his lasting legacy. Historical photographs bring the information to life and sidebars feature interesting information, which adds dimension to the text. An informative timeline highlights key...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINSarsour, Linda
Summary: "An inspiring and empowering young readers edition of We Are Not Here to be Bystanders, the memoir by Women's March coorganizer and activist Linda Sarsour.You can count on me, your Palestinian Muslim sister, to keep her voice loud, keep her feet on the streets, and keep my head held high because I am not afraid. On January 17, 2017, Linda Sarsour stood in the National Mall to deliver a speech...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SARSummary: The documentary explores the intersection between Colin Kaepernick's anthem protests and the reactions they spurred in the United States, revealing unique insights into America's ongoing racial turmoil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KAPJones, Martha S.
Summary: This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 JonAlexander, Kwame
Summary: From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the South, this is a story of a people's struggle and strength, horror and hope. This is the story of American slavery, a story that needs to be told and understood by all of us. A testament to the resilience of the African American community, this book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE ALETurk, Katherine
Summary: In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had called this renegade meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with waiting for government action and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 TURBrooks, Adrian
Summary: Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as "willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed," The Right Side of History sets itself apart by starting with the turn-of-the-century bohemianism of Isadora Duncan and the 1924 establishment of the nation’s first gay group, the Society for Human Rights; it also includes gay activism of labor unions in the 1920s and 1930s; the 1950s civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cleis Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 BROShachtman, Tom
Summary: "In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman offers an in-depth look at a time when money became as vital as guns in securing victory on the Revolutionary War's battlefields, and how some of America's wealthiest men risked their fortunes to aid the new country even as they reaped benefits from its independence. While history teaches that successful revolutions depend on participation by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 SHAShattuck, John H. F.
Summary: "A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on American rights, and how to push back, from experts at the Fletcher School at Tufts and the Carr Center at Harvard. In fifteen accessible chapters dealing with voting rights, freedom of speech, criminal justice, gun rights, LGBTQ+ rights, disability rights, religious freedom, privacy, immigration, and more, three renowned thought-leaders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 SHAZaleski, Laurie
Summary: "Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. Laurie had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZALESKI, LAURIE ZALZaleski, Laurie
Summary: "Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues -- horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023