San Antonio College Library

A biography of the African-American singer and actor who was an advocate of racial equality.

"On August 7, 1970, a revolt by Black prisoners in a Marin County courthouse stunned the nation. In its aftermath, Angela Davis, an African American activist-scholar who had campaigned vigorously for prisoners' rights, was placed on the FBI's ten most wanted list. Captured in New York City two months later, she was charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy." -- Amazon.com.

"In exploring the last few years of his life, this ... American experience production traces King's efforts to recast himself by embracing causes beyond the civil rights movement, by becoming a champion of the poor and an outspoken opponent of the war in Vietnam. Tapping into a rich archive of photographs and film footage and using diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts of fellow activists, friends, journalists, political leaders and law enforcement...

Muhammad Ali battles his fiercest rival, Joe Frazier, and the U.S. Government, as he attempts to regain the heavyweight title. He first loses and then defeats Frazier, but to become champion again, he we will have to beat George Foreman.

"Drawing extensively on published interviews and articles from the radical leftist press and other periodicals, Rout meshes biography, social commentary, and analyses of Cleaver's writings from Soul on ice through Eldridge Cleaver: post-prison writings and speeches and Soul on fire"--From Book News, Inc. (Portland, Oregon).

Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal's office in seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. She had an extraordinary childhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her civil rights attorney father and activist mother taught their kids to be troublemakers. In the Richards household, the "dinner table was never for eating -- it was for sorting precinct lists." From the time Richards was a girl,...

Describes the author's deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country's history, inspiring her work as an unlikely activist.

Christopher Hitchens is one of the most noticed and debated public intellectuals of our time. Hitch-22 tells of his complex and warm relationship with his late mother (whose Jewish heritage he discovered only after her suicide), his formative experiences as a socialist and activist, and the authors who shaped his intellect (from Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse, to Karl Marx and Richard Llewelyn).-Derived from book jacket.

This exciting 5-vol. biographical resource presents the lives, times and significant contributions of 625 social, political and religious leaders from earliest recorded times to the present. Each entry begins with background biographical information, including country, birth and death dates, burial site, marriages and children. An essay follows that describes personal, political and historic events that led to the leader's significance. The set is...