Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Social Activists

Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the "Red Summer" of 1919 that saw an upsurge in race riots and lynchings. Following the example of her grandfather, an ex-slave and community leader, Marian joined the NAACP at thirteen and grew up to achieve not only a number of civic leadership firsts in her adopted home city of Cincinnati, but a legacy of lasting civil rights victories.

Of these, the best known is the desegregation of Cincinnati's Coney Island amusement park. She also fought to desegregate Cincinnati schools and...

Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the "Red Summer" of 1919 that saw an upsurge in race riots and lynchings. Following the example of her grandfather, an ex-slave and community leader, Marian joined the NAACP at thirteen and grew up to achieve not only a number of civic leadership firsts in her adopted home city of Cincinnati, but a legacy of lasting civil rights victories.

Of these, the best known is the desegregation of Cincinnati's Coney Island amusement park. She also fought to desegregate Cincinnati schools and...

This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens, including the right to speak freely about the genocide of Anatolia's Armenians in 1915. As a result of his activism, Dink was assassinated by Turkish nationalists in 2007.

As founder and editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper, Agos, in 1996, Dink was the first secular voice of Turkey's silenced Christian-Armenian minority. He fought for the democratization of the Turkish political system. This was a risky...

This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens, including the right to speak freely about the genocide of Anatolia's Armenians in 1915. As a result of his activism, Dink was assassinated by Turkish nationalists in 2007.

As founder and editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper, Agos, in 1996, Dink was the first secular voice of Turkey's silenced Christian-Armenian minority. He fought for the democratization of the Turkish political system. This was a risky...

"The seeds of my undoing as a Protestant minister may have begun with my name."

In 1995, Duane Sinn endured a brutal media attack that nearly destroyed him. How could this have happened to a young man who left the farm, served his country, and struggled twelve long years to get through seminary while working full time, and raising a family?

Duane bares his soul in this raw, honest memoir, writing about the heartbreak of his first marriage, the highs and lows of his troubled ministry, and his unlikely entrance into the rough and tumble world of politics.

A PREACHER CALLED SINN is a...

On St. Patrick's...

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated.

By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun too was in danger of starving. Finally, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they were embarking on a journey that would take them...

Includes: 15 Illustrations and Biography

Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass An American Slave is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Following this liberation, Douglass, a former slave, went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and...

Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would "stay with his own kind," Fred Ross instead became one of the most influential community organizers in American history. His activism began alongside Dust Bowl migrants, where he managed the same labor camp that inspired John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. During World War II, Ross worked for the release of interned Japanese Americans, and after the war, he dedicated his life to building the political power of Latinos across California....

Hedwig Dohm: Was die Pastoren von den Frauen denken

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2015

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie der Autorin bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

• Erstdruck Berlin, Verlag Reinhold Schlingmann, 1872

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion

Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Fotografie um 1870

Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 10 pt.

Lily Braun: Memoiren einer Sozialistin. "Lehrjahre und Kampfjahre Beide Bande in einem Buch"

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2015, 4. Auflage

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

Erstdruck: Munchen (Albert Langen) 1909. Ein Grossteil der Namen historischer Personlichkeiten ist verschlusselt. Eine vollstandige Aufschlusselung ist noch nicht erarbeitet worden. Lily Braun = Alix von Kleve, Hans von Kretschman (ihr Vater) = Hans von Kleve, Georg von Gizycki (ihr erster Ehemann) = Georg von Glyzinski, Heinrich...

In 1964 Jay Hersch attended a Peace Corps forum sponsored by his political science instructor. Inspired by the stories of those returning from Peace Corps service, Hersch signed up, spending the next two years living with the disadvantaged Campesinos of rural Columbia.

Two years may seem a short enough period in a life, but the experience influenced Hersch deeply, impacting his attitudes and career for the next fifty years.

"Time Passages" collects many stories from Hersch's life both during and after his Peace Corps service. He relives the moments that forged his life, from his time...