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Righteous troublemakers : untold stories of the social justice movement in America
- Title
- Righteous troublemakers : untold stories of the social justice movement in America / Al Sharpton.
- Author
- Sharpton, Al
- Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2022]
- ©2022
Details
- Description
- 302 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- While the world may know the major names of the Civil Rights movement, there are countless lesser-known heroes fighting the good fight to advance equal justice for all, heeding the call when no one else was listening, often risking their lives and livelihoods in the process. This book shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things--like Pauli Murray, whose early work informed Thurgood Marshall's legal argument for Brown v. Board of Education; Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus months before Rosa Parks did the same; and Gwen Carr, whose private pain in losing her son Eric Garner stoked her public activism against police brutality. -- adapted from jacket
- Alternative Title
- Righteous trouble-makers : untold stories of the social justice movement in America
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302).
- Contents
- Introduction: The march ain't over -- The cornerstones of a movement -- Turning pain into purpose -- Things worse than death -- A reckoning -- True grit -- A moral beacon -- No greater honor -- Our legacy -- The state of the dream.
- ISBN
- 9781335639912
- 1335639918
- OCLC
- 1290894166
- Author
- Sharpton, Al, author.
- Title
- Righteous troublemakers : untold stories of the social justice movement in America / Al Sharpton.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302).