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Civil Rights 2018

Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)

By Steven Kasher

$29.95

ISBN: 9780789206565

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Published: Abbeville Press - September 1st, 1996
The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements; Conversations Between an MLK Jr. Confidant and a Modern-Da (Hardcover)

By Kevin Shird, Nelson Malden

$24.99

ISBN: 9781948062015

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Published: Apollo Publishers - April 3rd, 2018
Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography) (Hardcover)

By John N. Herbers, Anne Farris Rosen (With), Gene Roberts (Foreword by)

$28.00

ISBN: 9781496816740

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Published: University Press of Mississippi - April 16th, 2018
Dispatches From Lesbian America (Paperback)

By Xequina Berber (Editor), Giovanna Capone (Editor), Cheela Romain Smith

$16.95

ISBN: 9781943837649

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Published: Bedazzled Ink Publishing - February 28th, 2017
Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars (Paperback)

By Stephen Bourne

$17.95

ISBN: 9781788313469

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Published: I. B. Tauris & Company - September 27th, 2018
The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America (Paperback)

By Charles Kaiser

$17.00

ISBN: 9780802143174

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Published: Grove Press - June 10th, 2007
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (Paperback)

By Lillian Faderman

$20.00

ISBN: 9781451694123

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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 27th, 2016
Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote (Hardcover)

By Johanna Neuman

$24.95

ISBN: 9781479837069

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Published: New York University Press - September 5th, 2017
Go Back to Where You Came from: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy (Hardcover)

By Sasha Polakow-Suransky

$28.00

ISBN: 9781568585925

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Published: Nation Books - October 17th, 2017
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (Jewish Lives) (Hardcover)

By Lillian Faderman

$25.00

ISBN: 9780300222616

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Published: Yale University Press - May 22nd, 2018
Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (Inalienable Rights) (Hardcover)

By Nadine Strossen

$24.95

ISBN: 9780190859121

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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - May 1st, 2018
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)

By Andrea J. Ritchie, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)

$21.00

ISBN: 9780807088982

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Published: Beacon Press - August 1st, 2017
The Invisibles: Vintage Portraits of Love and Pride. Gay Couples in the Early Twentieth Century (Hardcover)

By Sebastien Lifshitz

$27.50

ISBN: 9780847843060

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Published: Rizzoli - May 27th, 2014
Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World (Paperback)

By Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

$16.99

ISBN: 9780316515566

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Published: Hachette Books - May 1st, 2018
"keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation (ICBP Technical Publications) (Hardcover)

By Nancy Weiss Malkiel

$35.00

ISBN: 9780691172996

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Published: Princeton University Press - October 4th, 2016
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)

By Janet Dewart Bell

$25.99

ISBN: 9781620973356

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Published: New Press - May 8th, 2018
Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality (Paperback)

By Debbie Cenziper, Jim Obergefell

$15.99

ISBN: 9780062456106

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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - May 30th, 2017
March, Women, March: How Women Won the Vote (Hardcover)

By Lucinda Hawksley, Helen Pankhurst (Foreword by)

$19.95

ISBN: 9780233005256

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Published: Andre Deutsch - January 2nd, 2018
Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham (Hardcover)

By Melanie S. Morrison

$26.95

ISBN: 9780822371175

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Published: Duke University Press - March 30th, 2018
The New Jim Crow (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander, Cornel West (Introduction by)

$19.95

ISBN: 9781595586438

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Published: New Press - January 16th, 2012
No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas (Hardcover)

By C. J. Janovy

$29.95

ISBN: 9780700625284

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Published: University Press of Kansas - January 26th, 2018
North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South (Hardcover)

By Mark Speltz, Deborah Willis (Preface by)

$35.00

ISBN: 9781606065051

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Published: J. Paul Getty Museum - November 1st, 2016
Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes (Hardcover)

By Diane Atkinson

$40.00

ISBN: 9781408844045

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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - April 17th, 2018
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (Paperback)

By Valeria Luiselli, Jon Lee Anderson (Introduction by)

$12.95

ISBN: 9781566894951

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Published: Coffee House Press - April 4th, 2017
Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World (Hardcover)

By The Women's March Organizers, Condé Nast

$30.00

ISBN: 9780062843432

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Published: Dey Street Books - January 16th, 2018
The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution (Hardcover)

By Ann Travers

$25.00

ISBN: 9781479885794

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Published: New York University Press - June 5th, 2018
Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us (Paperback)

By Cn Lester

$16.99

ISBN: 9781580057851

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Published: Seal Press (CA) - June 19th, 2018
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (Paperback)

By Aviva Chomsky

$16.00

ISBN: 9780807001677

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Published: Beacon Press - May 13th, 2014
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move (Paperback)

By Reece Jones

$16.95

ISBN: 9781784784744

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Published: Verso - October 10th, 2017

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Nick Pyenson - Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

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Julie Schumacher - The Shakespeare Requirement — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

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C. J. Chivers - The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq

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Linnea Hartsuyker - The Sea Queen — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

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Story Time — at Union Market

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Stanley Plumly - Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime

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Chris Hedges - America: The Farewell Tour

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Steven R. Weisman - The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion — in conversation with Sally Quinn

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Anthony Salvanto - Where Did You Get This Number?: A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense of the World — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

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William Oldfield and Victoria Bruce - Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America's Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice — in conversation with Dan Mihalko

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William Egginton - The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today's College Campuses

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