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HEROES FOR A CAUSE

 

Non-Fiction

 

Beamer, Lisa. Let’s Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage. 973.931 BEA [Anti-terrorism]

 

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. 632.9 CAR [Environmental issues]

 

Diliberto, Gioia. A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams. B ADD [Social issues]

 

Douglass, Frederick. Autobiographies. 973.8 DOU [Abolition]

 

Dove, Rita. On the Bus With Rosa Parks: Poems. 811 DOV [Civil rights]

 

Erin Brockovich . Videorecording. VHS DRAMA ERI [Environmental issues]

 

Gagne, Patricia. Battered Women’s Justice: The Movement for Clemency and the Politics of Self-Defense. 362.82 GAG [Women’s issues]

 

Gandhi. DVD DRAMA GAN [Non-violence]

 

Holzer, Harold, ed. Lincoln As I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes and Revelations From His Best Friends and Worst Enemies. 973.7092 LIN [Abolition]

 

King, Martin Luther. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King. B KIN [Civil rights]

 

Lear, Linda, ed. Lost Woods: The Discovered Writings of Rachel Carson. 570 CAR[Environmental issues]

 

Norma Rae . Videorecording. VHS DRAMA NOR [Labor rights]

 

Vardey, Lucinda, compiler. A Simple Path / Mother Teresa. B TER [Social issues]

 

Walesa, Lech. A Way of Hope. B WAL [Labor rights]

 

Ward, Jeffrey. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Illustrated History. 305.42 WAR [Suffrage movement]

 

Wolpert, Stanley. Gandhi’s Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. B GAN [Non-violence]

 

Fiction

 

Chevalier, Tracy. Falling Angels. F CHE [Suffrage movement]

 

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. F LEE [Civil rights]

 

Marlette, Doug. The Bridge. F MAR [Labor rights]

 

Shreve, Anita. Sea Glass. F SHR [Labor rights]

 

Smiley, Jane. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel. F SMI [Abolition]

 

Steinbeck, John. Grapes of Wrath. F STE [Migrant workers]

 

 

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