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Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Biography of the maverick scientist Candace Pert who discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain, also examines her years as an advocate of alternative medicine.
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
x, 228 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This study of Black feminist activism challenges the prevailing assumptions that Black women have avoided feminist political ideology as irrelevant to their lives & to the liberation of Black communities.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne and a friend to Henry David Thoreau. And so she charts a singular course...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
457 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an 'unbought and unbossed' firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change. Anastasia C. Curwood interweaves Chisholm's public image, political commitments, and private experiences to create a definitive account of a consequential life"--
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1942 a young black law student at Howard University visited a class in constitutional law taught by one of the nation's leading historians: so began the decades-long friendship between Pauli Murray, the student, and Caroline Ware, the historian. This collection of their letters begins in 1943 and continues (with few interruptions) until Murray's death in 1985. The correspondence illuminates a significant period in what is now labeled...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvii, 494 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of Pauli Murray, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather...
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