Explore the Lives and Legacies of Social Justice Leaders
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"All Labor Has Dignity" (King Legacy)

"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice (King Legacy)

"My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole": Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scripture (Race, Religion and Politics)

"They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race (New Narratives in American History)

"Venceremos": Víctor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement (PM Pamphlet)

"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence

11 Life Lessons From Nelson Mandela

1919

42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero

500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition

A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

A Brief Biography of Susan B. Anthony

A Bunch of Old Letters: Being Mostly Written to Jawaharlal Nehru and Some Written by Him

A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Cats: A Century of Tradition

A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

A Few Words in the Dark: Selected Meditations by Kagawa Toyohiko

A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth (Religion & American Culture)

A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump

A Free Woman On God's Earth: The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, The Slave Who Won Her Freedom

A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings (King Legacy)

A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution

A High Five for Glenn Burke