Category: Activists

View Categories / Biography / Activists

Sort

Showing 1-30 of 30

Image for Two Biographies by African-American Women: Biography of an American Bondman, by His Daughter. [with] Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany, Sub-Assistant Commissioner Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th U.S. Colored Troops (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

Two Biographies by African-American Women: Biography of an American Bondman, by His Daughter. [with] Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany, Sub-Assistant Commissioner Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th U.S. Colored Troops (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

By: Andrews, William L.; Brown, Josephine; Rollin, Frank A.; Gates, Henry Louis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2203185

ISBN: 0195062043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1991 Hard Cover. xliii, 104, 367 pp. The book contains the biography of an American bondman William Wells Brown, which was written by his daughter Josephine Brown. It also presents the precedent-setting biography of Martin R. Delany, which helped to introduce an analytical approach to biography writing in African-American letters. An unabashed success story of one man's military career during the Civil War and his subsequent work in the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction, this book, written at a crucial juncture in American history, creates a vivid portrait of a man who co...
View More...

Image for Autobiography of Adin Ballou. 1803-1890. Containing an Elaborate Record and Narrative of His Life from Infancy to Old Age. with Appendixes.

Autobiography of Adin Ballou. 1803-1890. Containing an Elaborate Record and Narrative of His Life from Infancy to Old Age. with Appendixes.

By: Ballou, Adin; Heywood, William S.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Lowell, The Vox Populi Press. - Thompson & Hill.: 1896

Seller ID: 2305445

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Stain to top corner of front board and frontispiece, front hinge weakening (title page loose but included). 1896 Hard Cover. xviii, 586 pp. The memoirs of the founder of the Hopedale Community, who advocated for pacifism, socialism, and abolition.
View More...

The American Revolution, Including Also the Beauties of American History.

By: Blake, J.L.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Derby & Jackson: 1856

Seller ID: 2292194

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus (Sabin 5783). Edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners, 1 inch internal closed tear to spine cloth, tide mark to bottom margin of first and last few pages. 1856 Hard Cover. 252, viii, 9-252 pp. 8vo. Two books in one volume. Engraved frontispieces for both works, engraved title page and cuts for 'Beauties'. Only 9 copies of 1856 printing - which was the first to include Beauties of American History - in OCLC. Includes biographical sketches of Daniel Boone, Samuel Adams, Abigail Adams, General Robert E. Lee, Martha Washington, and the Marquis de Lafayette, as well as accounts of fa...
View More...

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65

By: Branch, Taylor

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1998

Seller ID: 2273424

ISBN: 0965715248

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1998 Trade Paperback. xiv, 746 pp. In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In this masterly continuation of the narrative, Branch recounts the climactic struggles as they commanded the national and international stage. Pillar of Fire covers the far-flu...
View More...

On the Shoulders of Giants: The Bea Wright Story (Signed by Subject)

By: Chappell, Eleanor; O'Connor, Basil; Hayes, Helen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chilton Company - Book Division: 1960

Seller ID: 1905645

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Extensively inscribed, signed, and dated Nov. 8, 1961 by Bea Wright on front endpaper, to Mrs. Howard Wood, a worker in the Mothers' March. She mentions the March of Dimes, the charity founded by FDR, who also suffered from the disease. Lacks jacket. Spine lightly faded. 1960 Hard Cover. ix, 105 pp. A biography of the dedicated activist who fought to raise awareness of, and support research towards a cure for, polio - the disease that confined her to a wheelchair.
View More...

The City of Frederick Douglass: Rochester's African-American People and Places

By: Du Bois, Eugene E.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Landmark Society of Western New York: 1995

Seller ID: 2305258

ISBN: 0964170604

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed, faint stain. 1995 Soft Cover. 50 pp. This publication documents the distinguished record of accomplishment by local African-Americans. ...truly a landmark account of the many historical contributions blacks have made to the growth and prosperity of the City of Rochester and the County of Monroe.
View More...

Susan B. Anthony: And Justice For All

By: Gehret, Jeanne

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Verbal Images Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2302525

ISBN: 0962513695

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Page ridges very faintly foxed. 1994 Hard Cover. 120 pp. An introduction to the life of the suffragist, abolitionist, and temperance crusader, the book offers a look at the personal life and conventional upbringing of Anthony and examines her involvement in the women's suffrage movement. Illustrated with archival photographs and reproductions.
View More...

Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony

By: Harper, Ida Husted

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc.: 1998

Seller ID: 2273997

ISBN: 0405001029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Reissue. Ink underlining and marginalia, Susan B. Anthony house bookmark laid in, faint stain to base of last few pages of third volume. 1998 Hard Cover. Complete three volume set. xxiv, 513, [1]; xi, [2], 515-1070; xvii, [1], 1111-1633, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the important advocate for women's suffrage, reprinted from a copy in the Columbia University Libraries.
View More...

Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods

By: Hill, Julia Butterfly; Hill, Julia

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper San Francisco: 2000

Seller ID: 2291668

ISBN: 0062516590

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 2000 Trade Paperback. 261 pp. The Legacy of Luna is a book written by Julia Butterfly Hill about her experiences while protecting a tree named Luna. It is based on a true story, written like a diary of two years spent in an ancient redwood.
View More...

Image for Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great -- Complete 14 Volume Hardcover Set: Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Eminent Artists; Eminent Orators; Great Philosophers; Great Reformers; Great Teachers; Great Businessmen; Great Scientists; Great Lovers; Great Musicians (Memorial Edition) [Volumes I - XIV]

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great -- Complete 14 Volume Hardcover Set: Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Eminent Artists; Eminent Orators; Great Philosophers; Great Reformers; Great Teachers; Great Businessmen; Great Scientists; Great Lovers; Great Musicians (Memorial Edition) [Volumes I - XIV]

By: Hubbard, Elbert

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Wm. H. Wise & Co.: 1916

Seller ID: 2276944

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Corners rubbed with significant loss from heel of volume XIV spine, varying degrees of fading to spine, but otherwise a very good set. 1916 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Fourteen hardcover volumes -- volumes I - XIV. Original brown leatherette with debossed tree design on front boards. Frontispiece to each volume. A collection of short biographies of famous individuals by Elbert Hubbard, one of the leading figures in the Arts & Crafts movement in the United States, who founded the Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY. The hand-crafted items they produced are widely collec...
View More...

Image for Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, in Fourteen Volumes: Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Eminent Artists; Eminent Orators; Great Philosophers; Great Reformers; Great Teachers; Great Businessmen; Great Scientists; Great Lovers; Great Musicians (Memorial Edition) [Volumes I - XIV [1-14]]

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, in Fourteen Volumes: Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Eminent Artists; Eminent Orators; Great Philosophers; Great Reformers; Great Teachers; Great Businessmen; Great Scientists; Great Lovers; Great Musicians (Memorial Edition) [Volumes I - XIV [1-14]]

By: Hubbard, Elbert

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Wm. H. Wise & Co.: 1928

Seller ID: 2280901

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Memorial Edition, with subscriber page preceding title page of first volume stating 'This copy of The Memorial Edition in Fourteen Volumes of Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great has been specially prepared by the Roycrofters in their shops which are in East Aurora, Erie County, New York, for Phoebe Plumb.' A few spines lightly foxed. 1928 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 8vo. Fourteen hardcover volumes -- volumes I - XIV. Original beige cloth, paper spine labels, top edges gilt, dark grey endpapers. Frontispiece to each volume. A collection of sh...
View More...

Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: King, Martin Luther Jr.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Blue Mountain Arts: 2007

Seller ID: 2282813

ISBN: 1598422405

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Faintly rubbed. 2007 Hard Cover. Inspired by the life and philosophy of one of the 20th century's most remarkable humanitarians, this book combines compelling photographs of King with quotations from his most inspiring speeches and writings to capture the true essence of his timeless messages of nonviolence, equality, and love. The book also includes an in-depth biographical essay by South African writer/novelist Mike Nicol and an introduction by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
View More...

Frederick Douglass

By: McFeely, William S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1991

Seller ID: 2288999

ISBN: 039331376X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Spine creased, front wrapper faintly creased, top page ridge faintly foxed. 1991 Trade Paperback. xiii, 465 pp. Probes beneath the public image of this important national leader to reveal a complex portrait of the man who exposed the brutal injustice of slavery and spoke loudly and clearly for the cause of freedom.
View More...

Twelve Years a Slave

By: Northup, Solomon; Foner, Philip S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.: 2000

Seller ID: 2299160

ISBN: 0486411435

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Faint sticker remnant on spine. 2000 Trade Paperback. ix, [1], 336 pp., 14-page terminal publisher ad. Inspiration for the 2013 film. Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. 7 illustrations. Index.
View More...

An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker

By: Parker, Cornelia Stratton

Price: $9.00

Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly Press: 1920

Seller ID: 2201203

ISBN: 1135641374

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

5th printing. Very good in fair jacket. Significant loss from jacket corners and spine. Ink name on front endpaper, magazine clipping of photo of Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein laid in, along with a postcard showing the American Red Cross Building in Washington, D.C. 1920 Hard Cover. 190 pp. A biography of a federal mediator of labor disputes.
View More...

Palenque: The Walker-Caddy Expedition to the Ancient Maya City, 1839-1840 (The American Exploration and Travel Series, Volume 52)

By: Pendergast, David M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1967

Seller ID: 2305634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket clipped, jacket spine head and spine base rubbed. Page ridges lightly foxed. 1967 Hard Cover. xvi, 213 pp. In November, 1839, Patrick Walker, secretary to the superintendent of the Settlement of British Honduras, and John Herbert Caddy, a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and a talented artist, set out from Belize on an expedition to the ancient Maya ceremonial center of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. Caddy's diary of the trip to Palenque and the return to Belize via Merida, Walker's report, newspaper accounts, and the official correspondence covering the expedition form t...
View More...

Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

By: Richards, Laura E.; Elliott, Maud Howe

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1925

Seller ID: 2293323

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Reprint. 1925 Hard Cover. x, 457, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the poet, abolitionist and suffragette who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
View More...

Raoul Wallenberg

By: Rosenfeld, Harvey

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers: 1995

Seller ID: 1855012

ISBN: 0841913595

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Revised edition. 1995 Trade Paperback. 264 pp. The Library Journal found this a thorough, careful, and gripping recapitulation of Wallenberg's life as it recounts his efforts to save Budapest Jews and his imprisonment in the Soviet Union (LJ 7/82). This updated edition includes previously sealed Soviet prison records and archives and information on the Wallenberg family's lawsuit against the former Soviet Union. The popularity of Schindler's List will no doubt draw readers to this equally moving story. Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 – July 17, 1947?) was a Swedish architect, businessman, d...
View More...

Young Frederick Douglass: Fight for Freedom

By: Santrey, Laurence

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Mahwah, Troll Associates: 1983

Seller ID: 2305684

ISBN: 0893758582

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Postcard of Douglass mounted inside front cover. Ink mark on cover, page edges faintly toned. 1983 Soft Cover. Covers the early years and experiences of the black American lecturer and writer who escaped from slavery in 1838 and became a leader of the antislavery movement.
View More...

Fear No Evil

By: Sharansky, Natan; Hoffman, Stefani

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1988

Seller ID: 2304390

ISBN: 0394558782

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A few small tears to jacket edges, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1988 Hard Cover. xxii, 437 pp. Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us—which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years' imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly vivid and resonant. Since Fear No Evil was originally published in 1988, the Soviet government that imprisoned Sharansky has collapsed. Sharansky has become an important national leader in Israel—and ...
View More...

Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery

By: Sterling, Dorothy

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Norton: 1994

Seller ID: 2292470

ISBN: 0393311317

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Faint crease. 1994 Trade Paperback. In the tumultuous years before the Civil War, a young white woman from a Quaker background came to embody commitment to the cause of antislavery and equal rights for black people. Abby Kelley became the abolitionist movement’s chief money-raiser and organizer and its most radial member. She traveled hundreds of miles to awaken the country to the evils of slavery, braving hardship and prejudice as well as opening the way for other women, black and white, to take leadership roles. Now the full story of this principled woman has been told in Dor...
View More...

My Life's Journey: A Memoir of Betty Strasenburgh

By: Strasenburgh, Betty; Naparsteck, Ruth Rosenberg

Price: $50.00

Publisher: S.N.: 2016

Seller ID: 2267156

ISBN: 0692767673

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed and signed without attribution by author on title page ('I couldn't have done it without you. Betty Stras'). As this volume was acquired from the collection of Rochester City Historian Ruth Rosenberg Naparsteck, who edited the work, it is likely the 'you' in the inscription refers to her. Tiny internal tear on spine. 2016 Large Hardcover. 384 pp. A memoir by the Rochester, New York philanthropist, and member of the family after which the Strasenburgh Planetarium was named.
View More...

My Life's Journey: A Memoir of Betty Strasenburgh

By: Strasenburgh, Betty; Naparsteck, Ruth Rosenberg

Price: $40.00

Publisher: S.N.: 2016

Seller ID: 2267157

ISBN: 0692767673

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2016 Large Hardcover. 384 pp. A memoir by the Rochester, New York philanthropist, and member of the family after which the Strasenburgh Planetarium was named.
View More...

Bird Ambulance

By: Thomas, Arline

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1971

Seller ID: 2200509

ISBN: 0684311321

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Pages toned and lightly foxed. Jacket lightly rubbed, jacket toned. 1971 Hard Cover. xi, 131 pp. The heartwarming journals of the birdlady of Queens, including the warbler that came to dinner, bird in a sling- and many other delightful stories. Illustrated with photographs.
View More...

The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull

By: Underhill, Lois Beachy; Steinem, Gloria

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1996

Seller ID: 2201645

ISBN: 0140256385

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

1st printing. Wrappers rubbed, pages toned. 1996 Trade Paperback. xvii, 347 pp. This remarkable biography captures the strength and spirit of Victoria Woodhull, the controversial feminist who rose up from poverty to become the first woman Wall Street broker, the first woman to testify before Congress (for suffrage), and, in 1872, the first woman to run for U.S. President. An utterly fascinating, overdue tribute to an extraordinary feminist maverick.--Booklist
View More...

Voice in the Wilderness: Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution

By: Unwin, Peter; Goncz, Arpad (Foreword)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Macdonald: 1991

Seller ID: 2291689

ISBN: 0356203166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper ('For Eloise and Harvey, with love from Peter, Nwe York, September, 1992'). Faint stain to top marginal page corner. 1991 Hard Cover. 262 pp. Several pages of photographs. This biography portrays the life of Imre Nagy, who launched his revisionist New Course in 1953 to make Communism in Hungary more humane. After World War II, Nagy took his country out of the Warsaw Pact, declared neutrality and was arrested and executed, refusing to save his life by compromising.
View More...

Up from Slavery (Penguin Classics)

By: Washington, Booker T.; Harlan, Louis R.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1986

Seller ID: 2268761

ISBN: 0140390510

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Newspaper clipping laid in, pages very faintly toned. 1986 Trade Paperback. lii, 332 pp. In Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his life—from slave to educator. The early sections deal with his upbringing as a slave and his efforts to get an education. Washington details his transition from student to teacher, and outlines his own development as an educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. In the final chapters of Up From Slavery, Washington describes his career as a public speaker and civil rights activist.
View More...

Stranger and Traveler: The Story of Dorothea Dix, American Reformer

By: Wilson, Dorothy Clarke

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Little Brown: 1975

Seller ID: 2124598

ISBN: 0316944963

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket spine faded. 1975 Hard Cover. xxiii, 360 pp. The story of Dorothea Dix's battle against the inhumane treatment of the mentally ill.
View More...

The Life and Character of Patrick Henry

By: Wirt, William

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Henry T. Coates & Co.: 1900

Seller ID: 2294678

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No publisher date, circa 1900. xvi, 468 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. A biography of Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter, and orator best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): Give me liberty, or give me death! A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.
View More...

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

By: Yousafzai, Malala; Lamb, Christina

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Back Bay Books: 2015

Seller ID: 2304084

ISBN: 0316322423

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Faint edge wear. 2015 Trade Paperback. xx, 330, 16 pp. I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinar...
View More...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Activists

This website uses cookies