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Righteous troublemakers : untold stories of the social justice movement in America / Reverend Al Sharpton.

Righteous trouble-makers : (other title)

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781335639912
ISBN: 1335639918
Physical Description: 302 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2022].
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302).
Formatted Contents Note:	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.