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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
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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
By: Branch, Taylor
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1998
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273424
A nice copy. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 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 thi... View more info
By: Branch, Taylor
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster: 1989
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273425
A nice copy. 1989 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 1064 pp. In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Ca... 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: Douglass, Frederick; Logan, Rayford W.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Collier Books: 1962
Seller ID: 2274140
Spine creased, ink underlining throughout text, ink name and date on front flyleaf. 1962 Trade Paperback. 640 pp. Reprinted from the revised edition of 1892, with a new introduction by Rayford W. Logan. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass' third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. The emancipation of American Slaves during and following the American Civil War allowed Douglass to go into greater specifics of both his life as a slave a... 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
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By: Fischer, Louis; Bondurant, Joan V.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1988
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274872
Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. An exceptional copy. 1988 Full-Leather. xv, [1], 558 pp. 8vo. Original dark green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A reissue of the 1950 biography, with a new foreword by Dr. Joan V. Bondurant written for this edition. Color frontispiece of Gandhi. A biography of the non-violent activist who led the fight for Indian independence from British rule throug... 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
By: Garrow, David J.; Andrews, William L.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1989
Seller ID: 2274217
Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1989 Full-Leather. 800 pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of MLK, Jr. Foreword by William L. Andrews. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews with all of King's su... View more info
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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
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc.: 1998
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2273997
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 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
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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
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By: Hubbard, Elbert
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Wm. H. Wise & Co.: 1916
Seller ID: 2276944
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... 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
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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: Klein, Joe
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Delta: 1999
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273299
Reprint. An exceptional copy. 1999 Trade Paperback. Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, songwriter, and political activist, Guthrie drew a lifetime of inspiration from his roots on the Oklahoma frontier in the years before the Great Depression. His music—scathingly funny songs and poignant folk ballads—made heard the unsung life of field hands, migrant workers, and union organizers, and showe... 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: Mandela, Nelson; Obama, Barack
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2273757
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2010 Hard Cover. Foreword by President Barack Obama. Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. View more info
