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The 100 greatest Americans of the 20th century : a social justice hall of fame


Dreier, Peter, 1948-
New York : Nation Books, [2012] 2012

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Alice Walker: author and social activist


Fitzgerald, Stephanie.
Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, 2008. 2008

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All is grace : a biography of Dorothy Day


Forest, Jim (James H.)
Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, ©2011. 2011

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Arthur Morgan : a progressive vision for American reform


Purcell, Aaron D., 1972- author.
Knoxville [Tennessee] : The University of Tennessee Press, [2014] 2014

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Bella Abzug : how one tough broad from the Bronx fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, pissed off Jimmy


Levine, Suzanne Braun.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 2007

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Benjamin Rush : patriot and physician


Brodsky, Alyn.
New York : Truman Talley Books/St. Martin's Press, 2004. 2004

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Black woman reformer : Ida B. Wells, lynching, and transatlantic activism


Silkey, Sarah L., author.
Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2015] 2015

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Citizen : Jane Addams and the struggle for democracy


Knight, Louise W.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005] 2005

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Citizen : Jane Addams and the struggle for democracy


Knight, Louise W.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005] 2005

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Civic passions : seven who launched progressive America (and what they teach us)


Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009] 2009

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Civil War nurse : the diary and letters of Hannah Ropes


Ropes, Hannah Anderson.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1980] 1980

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A colored woman in a white world


Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.
Salem, N.H. : Ayer Co., 1998. 1998

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A consuming faith : the social gospel and modern American culture


Curtis, Susan, 1956-
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1991] 1991

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A Dancer in the Revolution : Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club


Johnson, Howard Eugene, 1915-2000, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Fordham University Press, [2014] 2014

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Divine rebels : American Christian activists for social justice


Guzder, Deena.
Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2011] 2011

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Divine Rebels : American Christian Activists for Social Justice


Guzder, Deena, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Chicago Review Press, [2011] 2011

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Dorothy Day : a radical devotion


Coles, Robert.
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1987] 1987

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Dorothy Day : a radical devotion


Coles, Robert.
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1989. 1989

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Dorothy Day : [a radical devotion]


Coles, Robert.
[United States] : Blackstone Audio, Incorporated : Made available through hoopla, 2005. 2005

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Dorothy Day : champion of the poor


Stone, Elaine Murray, 1922-
New York : Paulist Press, ©2004. 2004

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Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother


Hennessy, Kate, 1960- author.
New York : Scribner, 2017. 2017

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Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother


Hennessy, Kate, 1960- author.
[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, [2017] 2017

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Dr. Benjamin Rush : the founding father who healed a wounded nation


Unger, Harlow G., 1931-
New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2018. 2018

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton : social reformer


Burgan, Michael.
Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, [2006] 2006

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Emerson and Eros : the making of a cultural hero


Gougeon, Len.
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007] 2007

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An execution in the family : one son's journey


Meeropol, Robert.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003. 2003

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The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture


Kendall, Joshua C., 1960-
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2010] 2010

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The forgotten founding father : [Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture]


Kendall, Joshua C., 1960-
Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, [2011] 2011

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The forgotten founding father : [Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture]


Kendall, Joshua C., 1960-
New York, NY. : Putnam Adult, [2011] 2011

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The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture


Kendall, Joshua C., 1960-
New York : Berkley Books, 2012. 2012

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Frances Willard : a biography


Bordin, Ruth, 1917-1994
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1986] 1986

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Genius of place : the life of Frederick Law Olmsted


Martin, Justin.
Cambridge : Da Capo Press, [2011] 2011

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God, country, Notre Dame


Hesburgh, Theodore M. (Theodore Martin), 1917-2015
New York : Doubleday, [1990] 1990

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The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family


Greenidge, Kerri K., author.
New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2022] 2022

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The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family


Greenidge, Kerri K., author.
[United States] : OrangeSky Audio, 2022. 2022

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Heart's work : Civil War heroine and champion of the mentally ill, Dorothea Lynde Dix


Schlaifer, Charles.
New York : Paragon House, 1991. 1991

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Hesburgh.



[United States] : Music Box Films, 2019. 2019

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I Came a Stranger.


Polacheck, Hilda Satt, 1882-1967.
[Place of publication not identified] : University of Illinois Press, 2016. 2016

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Irrepressible reformer : a biography of Melvil Dewey


Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-
Chicago : American Library Association, 1996. 1996

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Jane Addams : spirit in action


Knight, Louise W.
New York : W.W. Norton, [2010] 2010

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Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray


Rosenberg, Rosalind, 1946- author.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] 2017

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Jeannette Rankin : a political woman


Lopach, James J.
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2005] 2005

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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption


Stevenson, Bryan, author.
New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2015. 2015

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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption


Stevenson, Bryan, author.
New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2014. 2014

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Lewis Mumford, a life


Miller, Donald L., 1944-
New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1989] 1989

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Lighting the way : nine women who changed modern America


Schiff, Karenna Gore.
New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion, [2005] 2005

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Love & justice : a story of triumph on two different courts


Moore, Maya, author.
Los Angeles : Andscape, 2023. 2023

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Love & justice : a story of triumph on two different courts.


Moore, Maya, author.
[United States] : Disney Book Group, 2023. 2023

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Love is the measure : a biography of Dorothy Day


Forest, Jim (James H.)
Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1994. 1994

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