Filter By Subjects
Abolitionists United States Biography African American women Biography Baptist women United States Biography Christian women United States Biography Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Social reformers United States Biography Spouses of clergy United States Biography Truth, Sojourner d. 1883 Widows United States Biography Women social reformers United States BiographyFilter By Series
American debates and speechesFilter By Subjects
Abolitionists United States Biography African American women Biography Baptist women United States Biography Christian women United States Biography Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Social reformers United States Biography Spouses of clergy United States Biography Truth, Sojourner d. 1883 Widows United States Biography Women social reformers United States BiographyFilter By Series
American debates and speechesStevenson, Bryan
Summary: "In this young adult adaptation of the acclaimed bestselling Just Mercy, which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so," Bryan Stevenson delves deep into the broken U.S. justice system, detailing from his personal experience his many challenges and efforts as a lawyer and social advocate, especially on behalf of America's most rejected and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Schiff, Karenna Gore.
Contents: Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Mother Jones -- Alice Hamilton -- Frances Perkins -- Virginia Durr -- Septima Poinsette Clark -- Dolores Huerta -- Helen Rodriguez-Trias -- Gretchen Buchenholz.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books/Hyperion 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SCHDiFranco, Ani
Summary: "A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIFRANCO, ANI DIFPainter, Nell Irvin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUTH, SOJOURNER PAIKnight, Louise W.
Summary: Jane Addams (1860-1935) was one of the leading figures of the Progressive era. This "pragmatic visionary," as Knight calls her, is best known as the creator of Hull House, a model settlement house offering training, shelter, and culture for Chicago's poor. Addams also involved herself in a long list of Progressive campaigns. Her rhetorical skills as both speaker and writer made her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADDAMS, JANE KNIWayland-Smith, Ellen.
Summary: "Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus'' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called "complex marriage," an elaborate system of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.7 WAYVon Hoffman, Nicholas.
Summary: A personal portrait of the controversial mastermind of popular movements, a man who is often called the American Machiavelli, Saul Alinsky.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALINSKY, SAUL DAVID VONZitz, Michael
Summary: Warren Buffett's big sister Doris, known as the Sunshine Lady, derives such joy from helping others on a one on one basis that her own hard life, including estrangement from her own children, has never hardened her heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUFFETT, DORIS ZITDavid, Alex
Contents: The need for change -- Fighting to be free -- "No union with slaveholders" -- America in 1850 -- The legacy of Sojourner Truth -- Primary source transcriptions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Gov DavidKing, Coretta Scott
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, CORETTA SCOTT KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KING REYKing, Coretta Scott
Summary: 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KING, CORETTA SCOTT KinSummary: Go from the hills of California to the Himalayan Mountains to reveal the life of this one-of-a-kind servant to humanity. Wavy's own words are blended with stories from an array of fellow travelers both cultural and counter-cultural, revealing the man behind the clown's grin and the fool's clothing. Audiences will come to know the activist, optimist, and healer who reaches beyond political,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAVIrons, Maya Moore
Summary: "A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's brightest stars, married the man she helped free from prison, Jonathan Irons. Jonathan was only sixteen when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit. Maya Moore's family met Jonathan through a prison ministry program in 1999 and over time developed a close bond with him. Maya met Jonathan in 2007, shortly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andscape 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 IROKendall, Joshua C.
Summary: From the author of "The Man Who Made Lists" comes an absorbing biography of Noah Webster, whose name is synonymous with the dictionary he created, but whose life story is not nearly so ubiquitous.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WebsterBernard, Jacqueline.
Summary: Biography of Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery, freed in 1827, and became famous for her courage, quick wit, and ready challenge as she campaigned for abolition and women's rights in New York and the Midwestern States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1967
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Martin, Justin.
Summary: Describes the life of the landscape architect responsible for New York's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace including his lesser-known time spent as an influential journalist, early voice for the environment and abolitionist, all overshadowed by a tragic personal life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW MartinWashington, Margaret.
Summary: The autobiography of the pioneer for racial and sexual equality discusses her years as a slave in upstate New York and describes the spiritual revelations that turned her into an abolitionist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUTHE, SOJOURNER TRUConn, Peter J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUCK, PEARL CONGreenidge, Kerri K.
Summary: "Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GREHennessy, Kate
Summary: Looks at the life and work of the provocative Catholic social reformer from the personal point of view of someone who knew her well, her granddaughter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017