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King Legacy volume 9
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A collection of the most well-known and treasured writings and speeches of Dr. King, available for the first time as an ebook The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr. is the ultimate collection of Dr. King's most inspirational and transformative speeches and sermons, accessibly available for the first time as an ebook. Here, in Dr. King's own words, are writings that reveal an intellectual struggle and growth as fierce and alive as any chronicle of his...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
?I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.? Martin Luther King III was one of those four little children mentioned in Martin Luther King?s groundbreaking ?I Have a Dream? speech. In this memoir, Martin Luther King Jr.?s son gives an intimate look at the man and the father behind the civil rights leader. Mr. King?s remembrances...
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Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
?All the history you need to understand why you're so furious, angry and still hopeful about being a woman now? Caitlin Moran Feminism?s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Helen Lewis argues that too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It?s time to reclaim the history of feminism...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. "Brief yet inspirational, this story will galvanize youth to use their voices for change."--Kirkus Reviews "Taking on the Plastics Crisis is a sobering and inspiring read by a brilliant young change maker. Now is the time for all of us to come together to solve the plastic pollution crisis."--Ed...
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Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life. Julian Bond helped change this country for the better. And what better way to be remembered than that."-President Barack Obama No one in the United States did more to advance the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. than Julian Bond. Race Man-a collection of his speeches, articles, interviews, and letters-constitutes an unrivaled history of the life and times of one of America?s most trusted...
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent Anne to her death in a concentration camp. But despite the many works-journalism, books, plays and novels-devoted to Anne?s story, none has ever conclusively explained how the Franks and four other people managed to live in hiding undetected...
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. In The New Queer Conscience, LGBTQIA+ activist Adam Eli argues the urgent need for queer responsibility -- that queers anywhere are responsible for queers everywhere. Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment,...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction. The...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status, denied the very...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Brought to you by Penguin. **Longlisted for the National Book Awards 2020** Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours...
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Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into being 'Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.' JAMES BALDWIN The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the presidency of Donald Trump,...
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