Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Harris, Duchess

Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HAR

Blake, Melissa

Summary: In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake's work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4092 BLA

Agosín, Marjorie.

Summary: A collection of poems by Marjorie Agosin that give voice to the victims of the corrupt dictatorships that existed in Latin America during the late twentieth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 AGO

Posner, Michael H.

Summary: "Conscience Incorporated provides a blueprint for global business leaders to navigate human rights challenges and adopt sustainable corporate practices"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 POS

Sacheri, Eduardo A. (Eduardo Alfredo)

Summary: "--Ese es tu problema. No se puede dudar en el medio de una guerra popular, Cabezón. --A vencer o morir, como dicen ustedes. --¡Más bien que a vencer o morir! --¿Y no pensaste qué pasa si no vencemos? ¿Estás seguro de que preferís morir? --¡No, porque vamos a vencer! --¿Y si no? --¡Si no, nada, porque vamos a vencer, te digo! Corre 1975 y dos jóvenes integrantes de distintas organizaciones...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SAC

Shattuck, John H. F.

Summary: "A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on American rights, and how to push back, from experts at the Fletcher School at Tufts and the Carr Center at Harvard. In fifteen accessible chapters dealing with voting rights, freedom of speech, criminal justice, gun rights, LGBTQ+ rights, disability rights, religious freedom, privacy, immigration, and more, three renowned thought-leaders,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 SHA

Stewart, Matthew

Summary: "This is a story about a dangerous idea--one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement--the idea that all men are created equal. In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 STE

McGowan, Leigh

Summary: "A political book for non-political people from viral TikTok sensation PoliticsGirl. Something's gone wrong in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. We can all feel it, but if we're being honest, most of us don't understand it. At the end of the day, we don't have all the facts, and if you don't know how something works, how do you fix it? A Return to Common Sense is a concise,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria Books 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Dennis, David J.

Summary: "A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DEN

Rodriguez, Janel

Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 ROD

Bajramovic, Hana

Summary: "The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the "equality amendment," was passed in 1868 during the time after the Civil War to help protect the rights and freedoms of Black Americans. In the centuries that followed, the amendment grew to protect the rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people as well. But in recent years, the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment has shifted...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.73 BAJ
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 342.73 BAJ

Reid, Joy-Ann Lomena

Summary: Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 REI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REI