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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Just Mercy

By Bryan Stevenson ,

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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
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Vanguard

By Martha S. Jones ,

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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
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The Woman They Could Not Silence

By Kate Moore ,

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Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
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Sojourner Truth

By Nell Irvin Painter ,

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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
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The Grimkes

By Kerri K. Greenidge ,

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The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
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The Firebrand and the First Lady

By Patricia Bell-Scott ,

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Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell
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Unceasing Militant

By Alison M. Parker ,

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Malala's Magic Pencil
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Malala's Magic Pencil

By Malala Yousafzai , Kerascoët (illustrator) ,

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Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
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Storming Caesars Palace

By Annelise Orleck ,

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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
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American Radicals

By Holly Jackson ,

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The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
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The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers

By Jean Fagan Yellin , Joseph M Thomas , Scott Korb

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Dangerous Jane: the Life and Times of Jane Addams, Crusader for Peace
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Dangerous Jane

By Suzanne Slade , Alice Ratterree (illustrator) ,

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Sojourner Truth's America
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Sojourner Truth's America

By Margaret Washington ,

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Harriet Jacobs: The Remarkable Adventures of the Woman Who Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Harriet Jacobs

By Jean Fagan Yellin ,

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Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America
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Sophonisba Breckinridge

By Anya Jabour ,

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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
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Ida B. the Queen

By Michelle Duster ,

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Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
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Common Sense and a Little Fire

By Annelise Orleck ,

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Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
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Coretta

By Coretta Scott King , Barbara Reynolds ,

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Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
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Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults)

By Bryan Stevenson ,

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Leading the Way: Women in Power
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Leading the Way

By Janet Howell , Theresa Howell , Kylie Akia (illustrator)

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Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
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Emma's Poem

By Linda Glaser , Claire A. Nivola (illustrator) ,

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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
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Dissent

By Ralph Young ,

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Eleanor Makes Her Mark
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Eleanor Makes Her Mark

By Barbara Kerley , Edwin Fotheringham (illustrator) ,

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Desert Flower
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Desert Flower

By Waris Dirie , Cathleen Miller ,

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Malala: Activist for Girls' Education
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Malala

By Raphaële Frier , Aurélia Fronty (illustrator) ,

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Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
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Jane Crow

By Rosalind Rosenberg ,

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We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
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We Mean to Be Counted

By Elizabeth R. Varon ,

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All Is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day
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All Is Grace

By Jim Forest ,

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Magic Seeds
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Magic Seeds

By V.S. Naipaul ,

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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

By Alice Walker , Valerie Boyd (editor) ,

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Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform
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Endless Crusade

By Ellen Fitzpatrick ,

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No Walls And The Recurring Dream: A Memoir
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No Walls And The Recurring Dream

By Ani DiFranco ,

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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
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Oneida

By Ellen Wayland-Smith ,

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Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
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Woman Rebel

By Peter Bagge ,

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So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
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So Tall Within

By Gary D. Schmidt , Daniel Minter (illustrator) ,

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Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy
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Jane Addams

By Judith Bloom Fradin , Dennis Brindell Fradin ,

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Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt's Search for Freedom and Identity in New York's Greenwich Village
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Eleanor in the Village

By Jan Jarboe Russell ,

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The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
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The Icon and the Idealist

By Stephanie Gorton ,

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The Revolution Starts at Home
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The Revolution Starts at Home

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (editor) , Ching-in Chen (editor) , Jai Dulani (editor)

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