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All awards · Topic: Activist Biography · Sorted by score · 33 books · filtered
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomDavid W. Blight201846 pts5 wins8 listsSimon & SchusterBiographySlavery & Emancipation+2
Malcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning Marable201132 pts1 wins7 listsVikingBiographyBlack History & Culture+2
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial JusticeRobert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa202228 pts2 wins6 listsVikingBiographyActivist Biography
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionBryan Stevenson201422 pts2 wins4 listsSpiegel & GrauTrue Crime & JusticeCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
A Civil ActionJonathan Harr199522 pts2 wins4 listsRandom HouseTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823David Brion Davis197520 pts2 wins2 listsCornell University PressHistoryActivist Biography+2
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black PerformanceHanif Abdurraqib202220 pts1 wins4 listsRandom HouseArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, SuperstarCynthia Carr202418 pts2 wins3 listsUnknown imprintBiographyFilm, Television & Popular Culture+1
Bearing The Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceDavid J. Garrow198618 pts2 wins3 listsWilliam MorrowBiographyAmerican Civil War+2
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968Taylor Branch200618 pts2 wins5 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryBlack History & Culture+1
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of RevolutionAmanda Vaill202516 pts1 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyLgbtq History & Life+1
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for EqualityRichard Kluger197516 pts2 wins4 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American RomanticismMegan Marshall200412 pts2 wins3 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtBiographyGender & Feminism+2
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate ShawTheodore Rosengarten197410 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyNatural History & Animals+1
The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.Murray Kempton197310 pts1 wins1 listsDuttonTrue Crime & JusticeBlack History & Culture+1
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War IISonia Purnell20198 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American RightArlie Russell Hochschild20166 pts0 wins2 listsThe New PressPolitics & GovernmentHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.Stephen B. Oates19834 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. and the South’s Fight Over Civil RightsJack Bass19944 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidential Biography+3
The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X19664 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBlack History & Culture+2
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley MooreAshley D. Farmer20254 pts0 wins1 listsPantheonBiographyBlack History & Culture+2
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849Christopher Clark20234 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryConstitutional History+2
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for EqualityTomiko Brown-Nagin20224 pts0 wins1 listsKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupBiographyActivist Biography+2
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall JacksonS. C. Gwynne20144 pts0 wins1 listsScribnerBiographyLgbtq History & Life+1
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black AmericaSharifa Rhodes-Pitts20114 pts0 wins1 listsLittle, BrownRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of DarknessKaren Armstrong20044 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel HuizdalaVáclav Havel, Paul Wilson19904 pts0 wins1 listsFaber & FaberMemoir & AutobiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
Zapata and the Mexican RevolutionJohn Womack19704 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksHistoryLatin America & the Caribbean+2
Journey to the Frontier: Two roads to the Spanish Civil WarPeter Štanský, William Abrahams19664 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+1
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of RevolutionAmanda Vail20254 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyLgbtq History & Life+1
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970sJason Burke20254 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentActivist Biography
This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being DopeShayla Lawson20204 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyActivist Biography+1
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to AmericaKeisha N. Blain20214 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographySlavery & Emancipation+2
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All awards · Topic: Activist Biography · Sorted by score · 33 books · filtered