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By: (IIT) The School of Imaging and Information Technology; Buchiere, Jessica
Price: $5.00
Publisher: TMD: 2008
Seller ID: 2204640
A fine copy. Titles are bound in inverse order. 2008 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. Titles are bound in inverse order. Stories illustrated in color with computer generated images and photographs. Biographies for a intended for older children.Keywords: IIT SCHOOL IMAGINING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JESSICA BUCHIERE ROCHESTER FREEDOM HEROES FREDERICK DOUGLASS SUSAN B ANTHONY BIOGRAPHY CHILDREN ACTIVISTS NEW YORK HISTORY SOCIOLOGY RACE RACISM WOMENS STUDIES View more info
![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)](/assets/images/product/2203185.jpg)
By: Andrews, William L.; Brown, Josephine; Rollin, Frank A.; Gates, Henry Louis
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203185
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 ... View more info
By: Anthony, Susan B.; Sherr, Lynn
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Times Books / Random House: 1995
Seller ID: 2263545
A nice copy. 1995 Trade Paperback. xxviii, 384 pp. Juxtaposed with contemporary reports and biographical essays, the words of this legendary suffragist reveal Susan B. Anthony as a loyal, caring friend, and an eloquent, humorous crusader. More than a collection of well-arranged quotations, the work informs, inspires, and gives historical perspective.--The Houston Post. 33 photos & illustrations. View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Penguin Books, Inc.: 1969
Seller ID: 2198217
Edges rubbed. 1969 Mass Market Paperback. 263 pp. This collection of seventeen biographies contains the stories of twenty men and women, black and white, who have pioneered in the filed of black protest. Written by a leading black journalist-historian, this book highlights the lives and deeds of such figures as Crispus Attucks, Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Here is a vivid chronicle ... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Penguin: 2005
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2268289
1st printing. Faint edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Fifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful and devout woman from her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama through her early involvement in the NAACP to her epochal moment of courage and her afterlife as a beloved (and resented) ... View more info
By: Carver, Terrell
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Hill and Wang: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201158
First edition. Jacket price clipped. 1981 Hard Cover. x, 85 pp. Engels is considered by some scholars to be the inventor of Marxism. His work converted one of the most influential political movements of modern times. He not only developed dialectal and historical materialism - the official philosophies of history and science in many communist countries - but was also the first Marxist historian, anthropologist, philosopher and commentator on the early Marx. This book beg... View more info
By: Chappell, Eleanor; O'Connor, Basil; Hayes, Helen
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Chilton Company - Book Division: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1905645
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 whe... View more info
By: Coward, Rosalind; Mandela, Nelson (Foreword)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2004
Seller ID: 1852309
Includes original jacket. Bright copy. Foreword by Nelson Mandela.Near Fine. 2004 Large Hardcover. 368 pp. Comprehensive portrait of the life and humanitarian work of Diana, Princess of Wales authorized by the late Princess' Estate and her Memorial Fund. With gatefolds, acetate overlays, 100 exclusive images and 400 others chosen for their style or memorable qualities, this lavishly produced hardback is the ultimate keepsake to remember Diana by. The tragic death of Dian... View more info
By: Dykeman, Wilma; Stokely, James
Price: $7.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1788596
First edition. Jacket toned, underlining throughout text. 1962 Hard Cover. xvi, 343 pp. 8vo. Had Will Alexander not shunned the limelight, he might already be a national legend, for he was the greatest white champion of the Negro cause in the South from 1915 to 1954. A farm boy who worked his way through Vanderbilt University and became a Methodist minister, he was a tireless enemy of the abuses, large and petty, which he saw around him. View more info
By: Foner, Philip S.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: International Publishers: 1964
Seller ID: 2191627
Wrappers soiled & creased. 1964 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 95 pp. A collection of writings from the famous and beloved abolitionist, civil rights leader, and social activist. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Dial Press, Inc.: 1969
Edition: 7th Printing
Seller ID: 2263744
7th printing. Two light spine creases, wrappers lightly toned. 1969 Trade Paperback. [vi], 231, [3] pp. Jacket photo of Abbie Hoffman by Richard Avedon, photograph and back cover by Robert Parent. While the supremely popular Steal This Book is a guide to living outside the establishment, Revolution for the Hell of It is a chronicle of Abbie Hoffman's radical escapades that doubles as a guidebook for today's social and political activist. Hoffman pioneered the use of humo... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Hill and Wang: 2010
Seller ID: 2261567
Highlighting, dog-eared pages. 2010 Trade Paperback. In this subtly crafted biography, the historian Lori D. Ginzberg narrates the life of a woman of great charm, enormous appetite, and extraordinary intellectual gifts who turned the limitations placed on women like herself into a universal philosophy of equal rights. Few could match Stanton's self-confidence; loving an argument, she rarely wavered in her assumption that she had won. But she was no secular saint, and her... View more info
By: Golden, Marita
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Ballantine: 1983
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1538228
First printing. Spine lightly creased. 1983 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 246 pp. Distinguished author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in America. While studying in America, she met Femi,... View more info
By: Himes, Chester
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Paragon House: 1990
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2199112
1st printing. Light rubbing to wrappers. 1990 Trade Paperback. Himes writes of black ghetto life and of his personal struggle with repressive American ways. View more info
By: Hine, Leland D.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Judson Press: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1736319
First edition.Very Good. 1969 Hard Cover. 205 pp. 8vo. Heroic Christian witness in adversity, coupled with deep and concerned insight into the social and political conditions which shape a nation, makes the life of William Axling one of the most significant and thrilling sagas of modern times. View more info
![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 [Volumes I - XIV [1-14]], with Guide Book](/assets/images/product/2140928.jpg)
By: Hubbard, Elbert
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The World Publishing Company: 1928
Seller ID: 2140928
Small circular discoloration to spine label of each volume (the jackets, designed with a cut-out to view the volume numbers, did not cover this portion of the spine). Edges of guide book lightly rubbed. 1928 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 8vo. Fourteen hardcover volumes -- volumes I - XIV -- plus Guide Book. Original beige blind-stamped cloth, paper spine labels, photographic endpapers. Frontispiece to each volume. A collection of short biograp... View more info
By: Johnson, James Weldon; Gates, Jr., Henry Louis
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Vintage Books: 1989
Seller ID: 2207910
A very nice copy. 1989 Trade Paperback. xxix, 211 pp. First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard -- and double consciousness -- that ruled the lives of black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man became a groundbreaking document of Afro-American ... View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Heart of the Lakes Publishing:
Seller ID: 2201256
Wrappers gently rubbed. 72 pp. A biography of the nineteenth-century pioneer in the struggle for women's rights. View more info
By: Lee, Jennie
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1948
Seller ID: 1524780
Lightly rubbed, pages toned. 1948 Trade Paperback. 180 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge PC (3 November 1904 – 16 November 1988) was born Janet Lee in Lochgelly, in Fife, Scotland. The daughter of a miner (who later gave up work in the mines to run a hotel), she inherited her father's socialist inclinations, and like him joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP). View more info
By: Loguen, J.W.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Hofmann Press: 2001
Seller ID: 2195551
An exceptional copy. 2001 Trade Paperback. Taken from the 1859 biography entitled The Rev. J.W. Loguen as a Slave and as a Freeman, this work follows Loguen's life from when he first arrives in Syracuse in 1841 and becomes a preacher and underground railroad depot conductor to his participation in the famous Jerry Rescue in which a fellow fugitive slave was arrested and shackled by Federal marshals in 1851. An irate abolitionist mob later freed Jerry. View more info
By: Lutzker, Edythe; Hakim, Sohrab A.E.; Patuk, Dina
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Exposition Press: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2161059
First edition. Very good in good jacket. Jacket faded, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, ink name on front endpaper. 1973 Hard Cover. xviii, 259 pp. 8vo. An account of the life of Edith Pechey-Phipson, an early woman doctor in England, and a notable humanitarian and champion of women's rights. Bibliography and index follow text. View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.: 1948
Seller ID: 1519081
Rubbed, jacket creased & chipped.Good. 1948 Hard Cover. 534 pp. Contains biographical & critical appraisals of various social libertarians including Henry David Thoreau, Emma Goldman, John Brown, Eugene Debs, et al. CONTENTS: The Abolitionists; The Utopians; The Anarchists; The Dissident Economists; The Militant Liberals; The Socialists; A Final Note. View more info
By: Martyn, Carlos
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Negro University Press: 1969
Seller ID: 1777242
Several related 19th century newspaper clippings laid in, including a review of the original publication. 1969 Hard Cover. xi, 600 pp. 8vo. 1969 facsimile of revised edition. Phillips was an activist on several fronts, but is remembered primarily for the speeches he gave in support of the abolitionist movement. He also advocated for equal rights for Native Americans and women, and supported the temperance and labor movements. View more info
By: Maruf, Mohammed
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Islamic Book Service: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1296847
First edition. Includes original jacket. Large stain to base, binding cracked.Good. 1977 Hard Cover. A survey of the philosophy of the famous Muslim poet, thinker and politician. Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilisation across the world, but specifically in India; a series of famous lectures he delivered to this effect were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. His outlook helped shape what event... View more info
By: Monsell, Helen Albee; Fiorentino, Al
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1960
Seller ID: 2205837
Stains to front and rear board.One inch surface tear to jacket front, jacket rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1960 Hard Cover. 200 pp. Focuses on the childhood of Susan B. Anthony, the civil rights activist who was prominent in the anti-slavery and 19th century women's right movements in the United States. KEYWORDS: SUSAN ANTHONY GIRL WHO DARED HELEN ALBEE MONSELL AL FIORENTINO BIOGRAPHY CHILDREN JUVENILE CHILDHOOD FAMOUS AMERICANS SERIES AMERICAN HISTORY ACTIVI... View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly Press: 1920
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2201203
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 info
By: Pelzer, Dave
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Omaha Press: 1995
Seller ID: 2201239
Minor wear to corners. 1995 Trade Paperback. xi, 184 pp., 4-page terminal publisher ad. This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers: 1995
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 1855012
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 reade... View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Tailored Tours Publications: 1998
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1535171
First printing. 1998 Trade Paperback. 72 pp. Photos. CONTENTS: Foreword; 1. Discovering Her World; 2. A Caring Family; 3. Out on Her Own; 4. A New Life in Florida; 5. Marjory Becomes a Writer; 6. Speaking Out; 7. Two Changes; 8. New Challenges; 9. Everglades: River or Swamp?; 10. The Everglades: River of Grass; 11. Her Writing Continues; 12. Friends of the Everglades; Afterword; Chronology; Glossary; Index; Photographic Credits; What You Can See and Do Today. View more info
By: Strasenburgh, Betty; Naparsteck, Ruth Rosenberg
Price: $75.00
Publisher: S.N.: 2016
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2267156
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 Strasenb... View more info
