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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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Recounts the life of the groundbreaking journalist, who combined advocacy with journalism as she reported on such events as American domestic politics, the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement.
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"When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad...
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Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
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1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
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Presents a life of the African American journalist who was born a slave and went on to become a respected teacher and journalist, and who is best remembered for her campaign through her writings to eliminate lynching in the United States.
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In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, Katie Couric reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she's never shared, until now. This is the fast-paced, emotional, riveting story of a thoroughly modern woman, whose journey took her from humble origins to superstardom.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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40 pages
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"An inspiring picture book biography of Ida B. Wells-who was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public speaker, suffragist, civil rights activist, and women's club leader-as told by her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster"--
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"In 1889, New York reporter Nellie Bly--inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days--began a circumnavigation she hoped to complete in less time. Her trip was sponsored by her employer, The World. Just hours after her ship set out across the Atlantic, another New York publication put writer Elizabeth Bisland on a westbound train. Bisland was headed around the world in the opposite direction, thinking she could beat Bly's time. Only one woman...
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
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244 p. ; 22 cm.
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Meet Helena Andrews. Sassy, single, smart, and yes, a bitch. After watching a skit on Saturday Night Live, she was at first offended, then came to realize that being a bitch is sometimes the best way to be (except when it's not). Follow her chronicle, exploring why popular culture hasn't moved past its old attitudes about strong black women.
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Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2010.
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viii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Born To Slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist.Well's refusal to accept any compromise on racial equality caused to her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day, but made her a model for later civil rights activists, as well as a powerful witness to the trouble radical politics of her era. Always militant in her quest for radical justice, Wells rejected not only Booker T.Washington's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
August 2012
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xx, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during...
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Center Street
Pub. Date
2019.
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S. Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first" looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage, humor and savvy that secured what seems commonplace...
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