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activists who wrote autobiography
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Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)

journalist, social activist, editor, trade unionist, peace activist, autobiographer, suffragist

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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The Long Loneliness
Loaves and Fishes
Watch For The Light
By little and by little
On Pilgrimage
Dorothy Day
From Union Square to Rome
Meditations
The duty of delight
Therese
Meditations
All the way to heaven
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker
Plough Quarterly No. 12 - Courage
All the Way to Heaven
The duty of delight
Praying in the presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day
Therese
House of Hospitality
Hold nothing back
Plough Quarterly No. 5
The reckless way of love
Therese
From Union Square to Rome
On Pilgrimage
Thérèse
Reckless Way of Love
Eleventh Virgin
Called to Community
Wisdom from Dorothy Day
Meditations
The Catholic worker
Peter Maurin
Jazz Jennings
Jazz Jennings (born 2000)

YouTuber, reality television participant, LGBTQ rights activist, spokesperson, television producer, film director

  • Broward Virtual Education High

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Russell Means
Russell Means (1939-2012)

actor, musician, autobiographer, film actor, politician, voice actor, television actor, peace activist, political activist

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Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur (born 1947)

activist, political activist, terrorist, poet, editing staff

  • City College of New York

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Assata
Still Black, Still Strong
Sparks Fly
Against Police Violence: Writers of Conscience Speak Out
Hands off Assata!
Women in prison
Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain (1893-1970)

nurse, poet, women's rights activist, pacifist, journalist, peace activist, suffragist

  • University of Oxford

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Testament of youth
Testament of friendship
Testament of experience
Chronicle of youth
Letters from a lost generation
The rebel passion
England's hour
Radclyffe Hall
Testament of youth
One Voice
Testament offriendship
Dark Tide
Wartime chronicle
Diary 1939-1945, wartime chronicle
England's Hour
Honourable estate
Chronicle of friendship
Testament of a peace lover
Account rendered
Phoenix: Chronicle of Youth
Good citizenship and the League
Valiant pilgrim
The women at Oxford
Poems of the war and after
Pethick-Lawrence
In the steps of John Bunyan
Honourable Estate
Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby
Born 1925, a novel of youth
Testament of youth
Testament of Youth
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In (Virago Modern Classics)
Because you died
Humiliation with honor
Verses of a V.A.D
Seed of chaos
On becoming a writer
Honourable estate
Humiliation with honour
War diary 1913-1917
Vera Brittain's Diary 1939-1945
Testament of a generation
Born 1925
Testament of experience
Thrice a stranger
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
Radclyffe Hall
Testament of friendship; the story of Winifred Holtby
The story of St. Martin's
Born 1925
Verses of a V. A. D.
Testament of Youth
Pethick-Lawrence
"One of these little ones..."
Born 1925
Envoy extraordinary
Women's work in modern England
On being an author
Oxford poetry
Search after sunrise
Testament of youth
Lady into woman
Diary 1939-1945, wartime chronicle
Envoy extraordinary
Halcyon
Halcyon or the future of monogamy
On becoming a writer
Valient pilgrim
Lady into woman
War-time letters to peace lovers
BORN 1925
Radclyffe Hall
Above all nations
Verses of a V.A.D. and other war poems
The dark tide
The story of St. Martin's (in the fields)
Women's work in modern England
Testament of experience
How shall the Christian Church prepare for new world order?
The rebel passion
Verses of a V.A.D.
Testament of friendship
Zai Ying lun qian xian
Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory (1932-2017)

comedian, social activist, social critic, entrepreneur, athletics competitor, politician, autobiographer, political activist

  • Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Khassan Baiev
Khassan Baiev (born 1963)

surgeon, judoka, autobiographer, human rights activist, peace activist, plastic surgeon, battlefield medicine, patron of the arts, sambo fighter, physician

  • Krasnoyarsk State Medical University

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Carlos Bulosan
Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)

poet, laborer, activist

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America is in the heart
All the conspirators
The Philippines is in the heart
The Philippines is in the heart
On becoming Filipino
The cry and the dedication
The voice of Bataan
America is in the heart
American Is in the Heart, American Autobiography Ser
The power of money and other stories
If you want to know what we are
America Is in the Heart (Washington Papers
Bulosan
The power of the people
The laughter of my father
Letter from America
Chorus for America
Sound of falling light
Nasa puso ang Amerika
The Voice Of Bataan 1943 [Hardcover]